[Coco] Advice on copying old floppies

[Carey Eugene]

Roger;

>>>I'm doing some cleaning in my garage and I'm going to throw away all my 
>>>old CoCo stuff.
> 
> Holymygoodness! I'm sure there are listmembers that would be happy to save 
> it from the landfill - Where do you live? A local list member might even be 

So I've noticed...  Between the messages in here and a few private message, I've gotten the feeling that a few people don't want me to throw the stuff away... [grin]

I'll make a list and post it, but only after I get the floppies converted.  That comes first, plus I have a couple other projects and distractions.


> willing to give you a hand with the cleaning & xferring process.

I doubt any live around here.  It's a rather rural, boring area.  I'd be very surprised if there was another piece of CoCo hardware within 50 miles, and then it'd probably be stuck in the attic.

 
> If you're in Michigan or Wisconsin (or Indiana as I'll be there next month) 
> I'd be happy to give you a hand if I have a free weekend... and I'd also be 
> happy to help get your emulator system up & running.

No, sorry.  Nowhere near there.
 
>>>I no longer have a serial cable, so I can't hook up my CoCo to my PC and 
>>>transfer them that way.  It'd be rather tedious to transfer 100 floppies 
>>>at 2400 baud anyway.
> 
> Ah, but there's this magical thing called "technology." ;-) I not only have 
> a serial cable, but I also purchased a program called "DriveWire" that can 
> transfer floppies to virtual floppies on the PC at 115200 bps on a CoCo3, 

Impressive speed!  I had no idea the CC3 could squirt that fast.

I had a 2400 baud modem with my system years ago (long since given away), and I figured that was about as fast as the CoCo could run.

I'm almost tempted to go find some wire and build another serial cable!

> and I can also transfer your floppies to a CoCo-formatted Compact Flash for 
> a non-magnetic backup medium.
> 
> All in all, it should take me less than a week to do, at least under "best 
> case circumstances."

Roger pointed out that XP has problems with non-standard floppy disks.

I didn't know that.  The last time I used a CoCo disk I was using either DOS or Win98.

I'm going to try the OmniFlop program he suggested.  I'm waiting to hear back from the author about a registration problem.