[Coco] Advice on copying old floppies

[Ken Carlin]

PLEASE don't just throw away this treasure.  I would happily pay shipping
on alot of it just to keep it from disappearing.  I would ask that you
take inventory of what you have and post it to the list.  I guarantee
you'll find people like me who will take parts (or all) of it off of your
hands.  And if you're in the western PA area, I could save you the
shipping trouble too.

--Ken

On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Carey Eugene wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I need some advice on making disk images of some old CoCo disks.
>
> I'm doing some cleaning in my garage and I'm going to throw away all my old CoCo stuff.  The CC3, CC2, the floppy, 6 or 8 years of the Rainbow, most of The Color Computer mags, lots of programs that I [cough] 'acumulated' back then, etc. etc.  Even the stuff I actually bought, like Pascal09, Deft Pascal, Roger S. Young's chess program, games, etc.  And probably 100 pounds of CoCo magazines.
>
> I've put this off for 5+ years, but I haven't looked at that stuff in that time, I'm not likely to ever do so again.  I used to really love the CoCo.  I used it for a long time.  I have some very fond memories.  But it's time to let it go.  Tossing it in the trash is going to hurt, but I live in a small town.  There's nobody around here that'd want the stuff.
>
> Anyway, before I do that, I want to make disk images of my important RSDOS and OS9 (360k) floppies.  Out of 500 disks, I fortunately only care about 100 of them.  Mostly stuff I wrote.  I don't need it, but I don't want to loose them, either.
>
> Unfortunately, it doesn't look like my PC 1.2m floppy drive can read them.  It can read the 5.25" PC disks (so the floppy is working), but it can't handle the CoCo disks.
>
> I know this is a well known issue.  The PC floppy controller sucks compared to what the CoCo's could do.  The PC controller just can't handle data that quickly after the index hole.
>
> But I'm wondering what a good solution is.
>
> I no longer have a serial cable, so I can't hook up my CoCo to my PC and transfer them that way.  It'd be rather tedious to transfer 100 floppies at 2400 baud anyway.
>
> Right off hand, the only thing I can think of is to find one floppy that the PC can read, and then use that to copy the old disks over to it one at a time.  Agonizingly tedious, though.
>
>
> Any better ideas?
>
>
> Carey
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