Vax! (and epilogue on teledisk)

From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
Date: Wed Feb 24 09:56:03 1999

At 01:55 AM 2/24/99 +0000, Tony Duell wrote:
>
>I was thinking more of general-purpose tools where you defined the format
>of the disk (as in 80 track, single sided, 5 1024 byte sectors, etc) and
>it made/dumped a disk image file. A program to handle CP/M disks would be
>next on the list...

I think there's great value in having a disk image format that
can contain more than the raw data. For example, how do you solve
the problem of archiving bad sectors? You want your raw disk
reader to be able to recover from those types of errors, too.

I seem to remember that Anadisk or Teledisk had defined its
raw-plus format somewhere, I'll need to search my archives to
find what I'm remembering.

- John
Received on Wed Feb 24 1999 - 09:56:03 GMT