6 Apr
2001
6 Apr
'01
6:52 p.m.
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