16 May
2005
16 May
'05
4:01 p.m.
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From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf at siconic.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 6:35 PM
Subject: Re: Disk archival
On Mon, 16 May 2005, Jim Leonard wrote:
Festival
Why can't a group just incorporate the images that are already made by
machine specific groups? There is a huge scene for Atari, Commodore, Timex,
Amiga, Tandy, etc that has already made images of just about every
commercial and PD disk for their platform. Asking a group that already has
everything dumped to use special tools to redump them for some other group
is a waste of their time. I think it would be better just to document what
each group does now, archive those images, and then create some software
that can recreate any of the images back to disk as needed.
Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
What I hinted at, but did not explicitly say, is that actually coming up
with such a standard is such a herculean effort that I doubt I will see
it happen in my lifetime :-)
Ok, just you wait and see ;)
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