WANTED: someone to transfer IBM 5110 BASIC programs to modern PC

[Jim Battle]

steven stengel wrote:
> Hello,
> A gentleman from the East Coast contacted me to see if I can extract old BASIC programs from his IBM-5110 8-inch floppy disks.
> 
> I have a working IBM-5120 with internal floppy drives, but the serial communications option is not installed in my system. 
> 
> I think the best I can do is LIST the programs and photograph the screen.
> 
> Any other ideas? 
> Anyone else with a serial port who can do it? 
> Anyone with a spare communications card?

how many programs do you need to convert?  if it is more than one, probably the best bet 
is this:

read the disks using a modern PC equipped with 8" drives, capturing the disk image with 
Dave Dunfield's IMD program.  Then write a program on the PC which understands the disk 
and file structure, dumping out the program listing.