[Coco] Hello and does anyone remember DFT?

[Steve Ostrom]

Hi, Glen.  I archived all my software, and asked Guillaume's help with 
proper storage.  He will know what that coding means.  I could also try to 
locate it in my files it if you can't get in touch with Guillaume.  He does 
read the Coco list.

Over the years, I have collected a huge library of original Coco software, 
disk and tape, and backed this up to an HD backup system developed by Mark 
and Boise at Cloud-9.  Each HD holds the equivalent of 256 Coco disks, with 
each disk able to hold many files.  31-055 refers to my 31st HD, and disk 55 
of 256.  This backup will probably also hold many other files since, if I 
recall correctly, DFT was not very large, and had no other files associated 
with it.

If you don't hear back from Guillaume in the next week, send me another 
message and I'll look it up on my copy of the backup I shared with 
Guillaume.

--- Steve ---


-----Original Message----- 
From: Glen Hewlett
Sent: Friday, November 11, 2016 3:47 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] Hello and does anyone remember DFT?

Hi Steve,

Thanks for your help.  I’m new to the CoCo scene and I’m afraid you lost me 
when you said "it is located at 31-055, 28-011 and 27-033.” Where do I find 
this archive?  Or is there a copy of this program archived somewhere that 
Guillaume Major is in charge of?  If so do you have an email for Guillaume 
Major?

I just found this advertisement in an Old Hot CoCo magazine (July 1983, page 
47) of the program I’m searching for, it might help:

COLOR DIRECT FILE TRANSFER
Tape version $24.95 Disk version $29.95

Now a program for the Color Computer that allows you to download basic 
programs from
Bullet-80 systems. It will also send and receive prog rams from other Color 
Computers, Model
I's and Model I l l's.
Direct File Transfer (DFT) is a modem program which will handle the direct 
uploading and
downloading of machine language, word processor files, text files, and basic 
programs
directly to tape or disk with no conversion necessary. It is the program you 
must have to
download from any Bullet 80 system. DFT also has a chat mode, and has 
software controlled
half and/or full duplex.

Thanks again,
Glen


> On Nov 11, 2016, at 3:56 PM, Steve Ostrom <smostrom7 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> I have an archived copy of the DFT program, the original tape, and a copy 
> of the documentation.  My records show this was produced by Big Systems 
> Software.  I can easily locate both the tape and the documentation.  For 
> the archived version of the program, please check with Guillaume Major. 
> It is located at 31-055, 28-011 and 27-033.
>
> Hopefully this is the same program you are asking about.
>
> --- Steve ---
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Glen Hewlett
> Sent: Friday, November 11, 2016 2:46 PM
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: [Coco] Hello and does anyone remember DFT?
>
>>
>> Hi Allen,
>>
>> Thanks for getting back to me.  The main reason I want the program is to 
>> play with it again a trip down memory lane copying some disk programs to 
>> tape and some tape programs to disks and to know this program isn't gone 
>> forever.  There are a handful of programs that I used all the time when I 
>> was young and this was one of them.  I found the rest but DFT I can’t 
>> find…
>
> Oh, I bet I am thinking of a different DFT. The one I had was a modem file 
> transfer program.
>
> -- A
> Hi Allen,
>
> No I think you’ve got the right program in mind.  DFT was also used for 
> transferring programs over the modem from disk or tape.  To another person 
> running DFT and saving to there disk or tape.  I hope someone has a copy 
> of this program.  Like I said I would be sad to think it’s gone forever. 
> I guess it wasn’t as popular as I thought it was.  But I used it all the 
> time.
>
> Cheers,
> Glen
>
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