25 Oct
2008
25 Oct
'08
10:38 a.m.
On 10/25/08 7:52 AM, "Ethan Dicks" <ethan.dicks at usap.gov> wrote:
If anyone knows how to generate 4952C diskettes,
I'd love to hear about it.
My understanding is that you can back up original software with the real
hardware, but there's some form of simplistic DRM that prevents "sharing"
application disks.
-ethan
I have a 4952A with the disks (available on my Web site). I made duplicates
of the disks using Teledisk, but I'm sure that IMD or any other disk imaging
tool work fine as well. The diskettes themselves are standard 720k DSDD
disks, but if looked at through an MS-DOS "lens", the format is something
less than 80 tracks (it might be 72 tracks with 9 SPT, 2 heads and
512b/sector). So, I recommend bulk erasing the disks first to avoid garbage
in that space after the format, but that's just my Type-A neatness coming
through.
Rich
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Rich Cini
Collector of Classic Computers
Build Master and lead engineer, Altair32 Emulator
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