[Coco] A new idea for a CoCoSDC expander

[Steve Ostrom]

-----Original Message----- 
From: Arthur Flexser
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2014 12:15 AM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] A new idea for a CoCoSDC expander

Okay, Steve, you've aroused my curiosity...

What was the "unique way" John used to remove the copy protection from
those disks?

Art

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I wish I knew, Art.  When I looked at the disks, the directory was quite 
weird.  If I recall, doing a DIR, showed the file name to type in, and then 
a lot of the rest of the directory space was filled in with a solid color, 
but it's been quite a few years.  I'm sure I still have these disks.  I'll 
try to locate them this weekend.  I have my active Coco system and the rest 
of my collection at our family cabin.  If I find them, I would love to send 
them to someone to analyze better than my original quick overview.  Quite a 
few on my e-mails to Little John involved these types of disks.  He told me 
he had about 50 or so more he could send to me.  He asked me for a supply of 
disks, which I sent to him.  That's when I started to not hear back, and 
when his Dad eventually told me he was back in the hospital.  I'm not 100% 
sure, but I think he was quite overweight (like many of us, I suppose, or 
maybe more so), and along with other complications, was having breathing 
problems.

I'll try to look for these disks this weekend.  Assuming I find them, who 
might be the best person to take a closer look at them, to make sure I am 
remembering correctly about the weird directory display? I don't think these 
disks allowed copying, but like I said, it's been a long time.

--- Steve ---