[Coco] old backups, RESTORED!

[Willard Goosey]

On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 07:20:29AM -0500, Steven Hirsch wrote:
> Both of these devices are serious approaches to data archiving and are 
> vastly more reliable than rotary-head data storage (DAT and 8mm).  In my 
> opinion, reliance on a rotary-head drive is a poor bet.  I've had nothing 
> but problems with them - 8mm in particular.

Heh, no, I've never cared for rotary-head tape either.  First thing it
does is tie the tape in a knot, then it expects to read/write it
reliably?  Not.
> 
> >xsurf is the tool.
> 
> I'll check it out.  Thanks!

Go through softhut.com.  My Xsurf3 works great!  Not only is it an
ethernet card, but it also has IDE and 2 clockports (whatever exactly
those are?) I've come across some limitations in smb-handler but those
might just be my poor little A2000 running out of RAM.  AmiTCP works
great!

OBCoCo:  I described Drivewire 4 to my ISP's sysadmin as a
point-to-point network (over serial) supporting block and character
devices, including the ability to telnet into the CoCo, since OS-9 has
been multi-user and multi-tasking since '79 or so.  I think his jaw is
*still* on the floor! :-)

Willard
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