[Coco] Rainbow on disk

Louis Ciotti lciotti1 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 18 21:08:01 EST 2015


Probably should have been clearer about the torrent contents.  I was
thinking a complete archive of everything, MM, RTSI, CC archive....not just
ROT/ROT


On Wednesday, February 18, 2015, Stephen H. Fischer <
SFischer1 at mindspring.com> wrote:

> Kind of a waste, the current Rainbow on Tape / Disk project is ~ 16 MB and
> that includes some propaganda to make finding files more quickly and to
> dramatize that many issues are missing in an attempt to get more Rainbow on
> Tape / Disk offered to get closer to having the impossible of all issues.
>
> A CD can hold up to ~ 700 MB!
>
> (Buried under snow below freezing temperatures may hurt the effort.)
>
> I have spent my time today eliminating the second set of OS-9 sides, just
> June 91 needed to be copied from the second OS-9 set to the first.
>
> SHF
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Batson" <steve at batsonphotography.com <javascript:;>>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com
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> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 12:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] [SPAM] Re: Rainbow on disk
>
>
> > When burning to a cd in data format, it is usually pretty standard and
> should be readable on most OSs unless you specify a Target such as Mac or
> PC only. Toast on the Mac let's me choose, but I always select PC and Mac
> so it's readable on both. I'd expect Linux to be able to read that but have
> not tested that.
> >
> > Anyway, on CD properly created should work for everyone.
> >
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> >> On Feb 18, 2015, at 11:25 AM, Steve Ostrom <smostrom7 at comcast.net
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message----- From: Louis Ciotti
> >> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 2:59 AM
> >> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> >> Subject: Re: [Coco] Rainbow on disk
> >>
> >> Actually the best way to archive this is multiple places and multiple
> medias.
> >>
> >> Has anyone thought of creating DVD images of everything and then making
> a torrent?
> >>
> >> I could do this, but I would need a source I could pull everything from.
> >>
> >> I am sure someone has complete pulls.  I could mail a flash drive or
> two and start the process.
> >>
> >> ====================
> >>
> >> When I did two massive backup's of my Cloud-9 hard drive a few years
> ago, Boisy assisted me in placing these backups on CD.  I don't remember
> what format was used.
> >>
> >> Boisy, would these be in a sharable format?
> >>
> >> --- Steve ---
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