A tool to extract individual datasets from "IBM Diskette 1" image files.
"Diskette 1" is an ancient format introduced by IBM in the 70s, and usually found in 8 inch floppy disks. Its internals are documented in the pdf file present in this repository (courtesy of bitsavers.org)
If you have an "IBM Diskette 1" image file dumped with a modern universal floppy drive controller board (e.g. Kryoflux, Fluxengine), you can use this tool to extract individual datasets from it.
$ ./diskette1.py --help
usage: diskette1.py [-h] [-i] inputfile
Extract individual data sets from IBM 'Diskette 1' floppy images.
positional arguments:
inputfile
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-i, --info-only Print only metadata from first track. Do not extract
individual files.