Teledisk not working

From: Lawrence Walker <lgwalker_at_look.ca>
Date: Sat Apr 7 01:52:18 2001

> > These assholes even claim that:
> >
> > "TeleDisk was developed to assist the U. S. Treasury Department
> > in the processing of computer evidence tied to floppy diskettes."
> >
> > Does anybody know if this is *true*?! I always thought it was
> > developed to distribute software via BBS's (and other electonic
> > means).
>
> I believe it to be 100% false. The story I remember (probably read in
> some Sydex documentation) is that Teledisk was written to help support
> the CP/M disk reading software (was that called 22disk?). The idea was
> that if you had a CP/M disk in a format that wasn't supported by 22disk,
> you could use Teledisk to mail an image of the disk to Sydex so they
> could attempt to add the format to later versions.
>
> In any case, teledisk is not that useful for extracting information from
> a non-PC disk (which is presumably what the police, etc, would want to
> do). I can really see the point of being able to make a copy of a disk
> for some machine they don't have. Some program like anadisk, which lets
> you read sector-by-sector, make disk images, and so on, would be a lot
> more useful to them I would have thought.
>
> -tony
>

 Someplace among my 5.25 disks I have a zipped early shareware copy of Teledisk
that I downloaded from a BBS around 92-93. I remember it had some sort of lame
disclaimer to the effect that it was not to be used to circumvent copyright restrictions.
 I thought at that time it was just a legal cover for their asses and certainly looked
like a way around copy-protection.

 larry


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