Vax! (and epilogue on teledisk)

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Tue Feb 23 23:55:07 1999

On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Roger Merchberger wrote:

> Once upon a midnight dreary, Tony Duell had spoken clearly:
>
> >I have been half-thinking of writing my own tools to make disk images of
> >any disk my PC can read, write them back to disk, extract data from them,
> >etc.
>
> Fine idea... but you may be reinventing some wheels here, at least in the
> short term.
>
> I know that the CoCo2 & CoCo3 emulator has a program that can read
> individual files & entire CoCo disks on a Clone, and I think the Model
> I/III/4 emulator does too... these are freeware AFAIK.

I have a 'freestanding' little 16+kb program called COLORC that was
apparently written in early 1988 that will read/write Coco disks. Had it
for years. Be glad to donate it.
                                                 - don
  
> If we set up a central site where these types of freeware disk tools could
> be located, then as folks find other available freeware tools, we could
> just archive it in the same spot... I can set up a spot on my FTP server if
> anyone thinks this is a good idea.
>
> Just lemme know if anyone wishes me to implement this.
>
> Thanks,
> Roger "Merch" Merchberger
> --
> Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers
> Recycling is good, right??? Ok, so I'll recycle an old .sig.
>
> If at first you don't succeed, nuclear warhead
> disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.
>
Received on Tue Feb 23 1999 - 23:55:07 GMT