[Coco] Disk Controllers for the Dragon...

[Steve Ostrom]

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From: tim lindner
Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2015 12:07 AM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] Disk Controllers for the Dragon...

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 9:28 PM, Steve Ostrom <smostrom7 at comcast.net> wrote:
> I am in another category of floppy users entirely, who have thousands of
> floppy disks I'm trying desperately to save to DSK files.  I need to
> maintain my floppy drives.  Eventually I hope to go with the CocoSDC only,
> but until then, I'm a 99% floppy user.


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tim lindner


That was pretty funny reading, Tim.  Thanks for sharing !!!  He wrote that 
post over four years ago.  He mentions that doing these transfers for people 
has become his fulltime job, but never mentions any costs.  I suppose I'm 
even more of a dinosaur than anyone else he even imagined.

Actually these floppies are not of my making.  For years I've been 
collecting floppies from friends (including a nice big box from Mark 
Marlette) and from eBay whenever anyone had Coco floppies for sale.  I have 
seen some real gems come through.

A few years ago, Boisy helped me to transfer the first 30 or so SCSI hard 
drives worth of floppies onto CDs.  For that I am eternally grateful. 
Recently, Guillaume Major helped me to convert Boisy's transfer of the raw 
data to DSK files.  These are now preserved.

I still have more than a thousand disks to look at and to transfer.  This 
will be much easier using the CocoSDC.  I do have about 5 SCSI hard drive 
cartridges that have not been backed up to DSK files, and I'll probably have 
to transfer these back to floppy and then to the CocoSDC, unless you Coco 
gurus have a suggestion on how to transfer directly from SCSI HD to CocoSDC 
without the floppy intermediate step.

--- Steve ---