Thursday, July 30, 2020

Built program to list contents of the floppy diskette images, in hex and EBCDIC

Since I know the format of the disk images, based on the floppy drives to which they are inserted, I was able to separate the 2,400 sectors of 512 characters and inspect them. I wrote a program that displays the hex values of each character in groups of 16 and puts the EBCDIC characters to the right of the line. This looks a lot like the familiar dumps of the IBM mainframe environment. 

Example of the output of my image dump program

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