One of the plants in the company I work for uses a TDC 3000 DCS so I emailed one of the instrument techs there. I will paste our conversation here. I don't know if it will help. -Curtis
Curtis
To the best of my knowledge the disks are formatted IBM Compatible (I have
never had a problem deleting the files and reusing the disks). The files
themselves are in a different format. I have heard rumor that the actual
file system is Unix based. Being a programmer myself I could probably build
a translator if the need arose, however I have some software on my PC that
does the translating already so I have not felt the need. If you want more
info on how they would be converted from Honeywellese to PC, you would need
to tell me which type of file you are trying to translate.
Let me know, as the project sounds interesting.
Curtis
Just aquired one of those Honeywell disks. It is not PC compatible. The
file system is an "Unknown PC Format, 16 bit FAT" So maybe the Unix rumour
is true. Hope that helps.