OK. I have about 500 DEC Ranibow floppy images that I've ripped over the
years.
I also have a number of .td0 images as well as other oddballs.
Other than Lotus 123 needing to have funky sectors on one of its bigger
tracks for copy protection, I think having the raw images suffice.
I have some disks that I have multiple copies of (MS-DOS, CP/M, Winchester
Utilities, DEC Rainbow diagnostics etc).I have a few copies of some
software packages. I have a few disks that are clearly personal. And some
of the variations of MS-DOS have different patches applied by various
install programs (or debug scripts published in different trade rags of the
time). And at least one has a special driver installed that overwrites the
DEC Winchester for things like Univation).
So, what I'd like to do is to is somehow organize all this. I wrote some
software to extract files from the filesystem.So I'd like to have a
separate copy of the expanded files.
Lots of moving parts for 40-year-old floppies. I'm struggling with how to
organize all this, how to keep track of this, and how to allow others to
contribute their disk images and allow things to be studied and run. I'd
like to keep the raw images (to mine them for drivers like the univation
one I discovered). I'd like to keep the busted apart files to access them
more easily, etc.
Is there some book, website, paper, etc that I can use to to help me
organize all this so I can share it with others? Is this even the right
place to ask? There's got to be several people that have solved this issue
before....
Warner