[Coco] Preserving old CoCo diskettes...

[richec]

On Monday, May 17, 2010 11:29:43 pm Allen Huffman wrote:
> My problem:
> 
> I have HUNDREDS of floppy disks from my CoCo. Some are standard 35-track,
> some are 40 track, and some are OS-9.
> 
> I want to get these all backed up, but things like HDB-DOS only deal with
> 35-track disks, so I have never been able to back up my data (including
> things like hidden DOS commands to set up 40 tracks, 6ms, etc.).
> 
> So, a few years ago, I wrote software to write sectors across a serial port
> (under OS-9) and would insert a disk and just stream the disk to the other
> side, where it would be written out as a raw disk image of sectors. (I
> think I actually used this to transfer an entire 128MB hard drive over!)
> 
> Someone has bound to have already faced this and worked up a better
> solution.
> 
> Anyone have suggestions? Hooking a 5 1/4" drive up to a computer is not an
> option. I'm running Macs and haven't had anything with a floppy disk on it
> since 1998 :-)
> 
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There is a program that I used to backup all my CoCo floppies to the HD on my 
PeeCee. Unfortunately, I am at the school and the program is at my house. I 
will get back to you later this evening once I have the chance to look it up.