16 Apr
2007
16 Apr
'07
4:18 p.m.
On 16 Apr 2007 at 18:55, John S wrote:
I read the following on www.sydex.com:
" We do floppy conversion (diskette conversion), we can copy any diskette.
We have special hardware for reading non-PC floppies. We are the authors of
22Disk, 22Nice, CopyQM and TeleDisk. We still have a few CompatiCard
controllers for sale--please inquire about them. We can supply 5.25 inch and
8 inch drives. If it's on diskette, we can handle it. "
We unloaded most of this stuff late last year, so I've removed the
paragraph from our web site. Thanks for jostling my memory!
Personally I am still thinking about buying a
Catweasel card, but am unsure
about software for reading and writing hard-sector floppies. I have a
Northstar Advantage and am happy to make copies of the system disks (for
cost of disks and postage), this uses 10-sector floppies. I also have a AES
Superplus IV which is a WP system that uses 16-sector floppies, however the
system doesn't allow copies of disks to be be made so once my disk fails /
wears out that's it.
The Catweasel can undoubtedly make copies of your AES diskette--all
it takes is software. I respectfully suggest getting an image of the
diskette before it dies completely--one can always resurrect a copy
from the image if necessary, but once the original is
toast, the data
is history.
Cheers,
Chuck