[Coco] Preserving old CoCo diskettes...

Roger Taylor operator at coco3.com
Tue May 18 23:53:04 EDT 2010


At 10:08 PM 5/18/2010, you wrote:
> >But then I admit it could take the fun out of watching rz/sz do it's
> >thing, or actually writing the protocol and proving you're still the
> >mean coder you used to be.  ;)
>
>But I have to get into the mindset that makes me absolutely driven, and that
>leads to complaints from the better half's bleacher seats.  Even I don't
>enjoy that anymore.

HAHA!!   "Gene, your supper is colder than ice now put that soldering 
iron down and get in here!"  "Yes, ma'am"  :)


>There might be more than one way to skin this cat, but I really think there
>may be a greater chance of starting from scratch, dissing that aciapak driver
>from 15+ years ago & figuring out what the diff is between the null modem
>cable I used then, and the one I have now.  I have NDI what happened to that
>original cable I used so successfully when it was working against the serial
>port of an amiga 2000.
>
>If anyone has a null modem cable with db25's on both ends that is known to
>work without the eventual lockup, having a ring list of that cable would be
>at least as good as sliced bread or bottled beer to me.





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~ Roger Taylor




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