[Coco] old backups, RESTORED!

[Willard Goosey]

On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 08:34:29PM -0600, Joel Ewy wrote:

> Glad to hear it.  I still wish I had a good backup of the old 40M "MFM" 
> drive I used on my mini-tower CoCo 3 repack via Adaptec 4001 (or 
> something) SCSI controller and the Disto 4-in-1.  

Yeah, I had setups like that, LR-Tech SASI adaptor->XEBEC
controller->ST251.  No backups, stupidly enough.  Nor of my first
Glenside IDE drive.    

The crash that finally taught me to do backups was the 2000 crash of
my main Linux machine's drive.  I lost *lots* of stuff there. :-(

> DriveWire does make me feel a little more secure about working with the 
> CoCo these days.  Very easy to back up a DW disk image file.

Yep.  No more feeding the machine dozens of floppy disks!

Willard
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