[Coco] [Color Computer] Anadisk and CP/M

[pawzisme]

--- In ColorComputer at yahoogroups.com, shadow at ... wrote:
>
> On 30 Aug 2007 at 17:04, pawzisme wrote:
> 
> > Hello folks, I have joined the group purely to pick your brains as
> > help is not easy to find on this topic.
> > 
> > I have here a  fairly large  pile of  5.25" floppies most of which
> > were used in a Genie (TRS80). The guy who used them was into all
> > things computery and was also a writer. I say 'was' because he died a
> > couple of years back.  His wife has asked me to see if I can find any
> > of his 'stuff' on these disks, and to that end I have an old 5.25
> > drive mounted in a fairly old computer, and am using anadisk to
> > explore each disk. I also have teledisk and disk22.
> 
> While the CoCo (Color Computer) was a TRS-80, it's *not* the kind of 
> TRS-80 that the Genie was a (semi)clone of.
> 
> You want to check on groups for the TRS 80 Model I.
> 
> And the CocCo definitely didn't run CP/M. For that matter, what makes 
> you thinkl the disks *are* CP/M disks? There were a lot of OSes for 
> those boxes and CP/M *wasn't* the most popular.
> 
> > I am getting on ok with Anadisk, but  I would like to know I am
> > searching each disk fully, and not just one sector.  If I do a Sector
> > - edit, and then let the arrow progress to the end of  the disk, with
> > my finger on F10 to read the next bit, am I actually covering every
> > sector or only everything on one sector?
> 
> Given that a lot of word procesor files, especially back then, will 
> look like gibberish if you don't access them via the correct program, 
> you are going to need a TRS-80 emulator of some sort to really check 
> the disks. A Genie emulator (if there is one) would be better.
> 
> 
> --
> Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
> shadow at shadowgard dot com
>
Thank you Leonard.  There is a mixture of CP/M and DOS and they are
all readable except where there is data corruption (obviously). I know
they are CP/M's because it says so, either on the  floppy or  via
Anadisk which  can handle and identify a wide range of formats. As I
said, I am getting along ok and I am finding text without  difficulty.
My problem is that I do not know if, when the  arrow has progressed
through the to the end of the line, whether or not I have covered the
entire disk or just the relevant sector. I thought  you might know. I
expect I can work it out for myself, but,yes, I will take your advice
and look for a TRS-80 Group that is more specific. Thanks.