Let's develop an open-source media archive standard

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Wed Aug 11 13:53:28 2004

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Steve Thatcher wrote:

> I know a three section approach that I was proposing is more
> complicated, but from a code standpoint allows total freedom of data
> access without having to create a target media let alone have the
> computer system to then read the media just to get at the data that was
> on a floppy disk. The beauty is that if you need to create a Northstar
> system diskette then you can, but if all you need is a copy of the
> dump.asm program then you can get that also without having to go any
> further than the file you started with.

What you're discussing here are binary images.

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