Re: [M100] Mxxx Software of 3.5
I second the motion to make Back-up disk images of any vintage software before endangering it. I would use a hi-res camera. Scanners ensure perfect lighting and focus with almost zero setup time.A good camera will give you similar results with a little set-up time.Your cell phone is probably good enough. Turn on multiple lights to eliminate shadows. rest the phone on the back of a chair near the table to reduce shaking. If the lights are bright enough it won't matter. take 4 or 5 shots, and chose the best. Crop it and save it to one of the cloud services, to download to your computer without cables. I do this with Expense account receipts when travelling.. Steve Ranft Savage, MN From: jwhit...@bellsouth.net To: m100@lists.bitchin100.com Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 00:57:05 -0400 Subject: [M100] Mxxx Software of 3.5 I have a batch of M10x, M200 programs on 3.5 disks. Too many to bother listing individually. My question is, what's the consensus for just scanning the disks/labels and post the scans. Anyone think stray scanner stepper fields might erase the disks? I doubt that I have anything particularly interesting, but maybe. Anyhow, thoughts? John W.
Re: [M100] Mxxx Software of 3.5
Are they TPDD 1 diskettes? If so the raw sector data could be extracted to PC files by using the TPDD protocol. The TPDD 2 also has sector access commands but I don't recall whether it was completely reverse engineered. -- John.
Re: [M100] Mxxx Software of 3.5
John, Check to see if one of those disks is Sardine for the 10x. Not the American Dictionary disk (That's been found) but the regular program disk. The 200 version was found by Bob Pigford a few months back but I've still been on the lookout for the 10x version. As far as scanning the labels goes, I would think taking a picture would be safer do to the proximity of electrical noise and heat from the scanning bar. You could lay them out of a table and take a hi res picture of 10 or so at a time. Kurt On Monday, June 15, 2015 9:57 PM, John Whitton jwhit...@bellsouth.net wrote: I have a batch of M10x, M200 programs on 3.5 disks. Too many to bother listing individually. My question is, what's the consensus for just scanning the disks/labels and post the scans. Anyone think stray scanner stepper fields might erase the disks? I doubt that I have anything particularly interesting, but maybe. Anyhow, thoughts?John W.
Re: [M100] Mxxx Software of 3.5
I'd pull a disk image to a file of each one before putting them near any machinery. (Do that anyway, floppy disks don't last forever!) On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 12:57 AM, John Whitton jwhit...@bellsouth.net wrote: I have a batch of M10x, M200 programs on 3.5 disks. Too many to bother listing individually. My question is, what's the consensus for just scanning the disks/labels and post the scans. Anyone think stray scanner stepper fields might erase the disks? I doubt that I have anything particularly interesting, but maybe. Anyhow, thoughts? John W. -- Disclaimer: Any resemblance between the above views and those of my employer, my terminal, or the view out my window are purely coincidental. Any resemblance between the above and my own views is non-deterministic. The question of the existence of views in the absence of anyone to hold them is left as an exercise for the reader. The question of the existence of the reader is left as an exercise for the second god coefficient. (A discussion of non-orthogonal, non-integral polytheism is beyond the scope of this article.) Thanks /usr/games/fortune
[M100] Mxxx Software of 3.5
I have a batch of M10x, M200 programs on 3.5 disks. Too many to bother listing individually. My question is, what's the consensus for just scanning the disks/labels and post the scans. Anyone think stray scanner stepper fields might erase the disks? I doubt that I have anything particularly interesting, but maybe. Anyhow, thoughts? John W.
