[Coco] Archiving a floppy disk collection

[Frank Pittel]

While I'm sure that Aaron will know of a much better and smarter way to do this but with at
least drivewire 2 & 3 you could have 4 disk groups of 255 floppies each. Subtract the first
four for physical floppies and and that leave 251 for a total of 1004 floppies. Even I could
write a simple basic program to increment a counter to loop from 3-255 and with another
counter going from 0-3 using the "drive #x" command! :-)

That should keep your fussing on the server side of drivewire to a minimum. I've already done
this on a much smaller scale with 20-30 floppies that I bought at auction at a coco fest a few
years ago.

The Other Frank

PS - Don't want to start any wars about legal rights or issues but have you given any thoughts
about making the drivewire images available for download? Assuming that it's legal for you to
do so of course!


On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 07:46:11AM -0500, Allen Huffman wrote:
> On Mar 21, 2012, at 7:24 AM, Robert Gault wrote:
> > Allen, could you be more specific about what you want to do? It reads to me that you want to put a disk into the Coco and a blank image into Drivewire. Then backup the Coco disk to the Drivewire mounted disk.
> > If that is correct, you don't need any programs, just Drivewire4. The exception would be for copyright protected disks.
> 
> Yes, but I don't want to do that for 1000 floppy disks, so I am going to write a program so all I do is swap a disk, type in what it is (disk label), and hit ENTER, and it cranks away.
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