ImageDisk project is canceled

Dave Dunfield wrote: ... This is bad news, and I hope Dave reconsiders. I'm disappointed he let the irritating few get under his skin, and I'm sure those appreciative of his efforts far outnumber those who were critical. After Don Maslin's death and the apparent loss of his collection of disks and images, there was a lot of group discussion of how to go about collecting such a library again and this time using a format that wasn't so obscure as teledisk (which was I'm sure motivated by goals, such as compactness, that aren't a constraint for pure archival) and that was maintained. That was replaced by the sound of crickets, then Dave went and did something about it. Not only did he write the software, he had a good start on many boot disks that are not available anywhere else (that I'm aware of anyway). I've invested some effort, certainly not nearly as much as Dave, in archiving 50-100 different disks using his tools (for machines as diverse as northstar, sol, wang, sage, bondwell), and I've convinced a few others to use them as well. Some of my machine web pages have IMD images on them. It will take me some time to keep offering the bits but without the IMD-ness. I guess the best I can do at this point is convert the disk images to raw sector dumps. So maybe we can hope that that open source disk archiver project will now move forward that Dave's simple and documented format is no longer somehow hindering its development. To that end, I'd like a pointer to it to see if it will work for me. If it isn't online that means either the program is just someone's idle thought (in which case, get in line behind the million other good things to work on "when I have the time"), or it is, uh, an unpublished open source program. Like Dave's. But unproven. Not being a big drinker, I'm going to have to go find an old databook or BIOS listing to console myself. As long as I'm posting, I might as well mention that this past weekend I scanned about 45 datasheets, ads, and a few larger documents and put them up on my Wang 2200 documents page. I also posted about a dozen other similar types of documents that Paul Heller scanned and sent. List of newly uploaded files: http://www.thebattles.net/wang/whats_new.html The page with all of the docs: http://www.thebattles.net/wang/docs.html