On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 05:35:51PM -0800, Chuck Guzis wrote:
I've got a set of mystery 5.25" DD floppies
that appear to be a
backup of some sort. 10 x 512 byte sectors per track, 40 cylinders,
double-sided. Normal sector IDs (Side 0: 0/ Side 1: 1), 1-10.
No, it's not FASTBACK nor does it appear to be Central Point's PC
Backup. The start of the first sector of the first floppy looks
like this:
000000 50 43 42 41 43 4B 55 50-2E 01 00 50 43 42 00 06
000010 04 00 69 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
000020 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
000030 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 01 01 01 01
000040 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01-01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01
000050 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01-01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01
000060 01 01 01 01 01 5A 5A 5A-5A 5A 5A 5A 5A 5A 5A 5A
000070 5A 5A 5A 5A 5A 5A 5A 5A-5A 5A 5A 5A 5A 5A 5A 5A
000080 5A 5A 5A 5A 5A 5A 5A 5A-5A 5A 5A 5A 5A 52 13 C5
000090 9A 01 00 1E 00 01 00 54-55 52 42 4F 43 5C 00 00
Note that it starts off with 'PCBACKUP'. This doesn't seem to match
anything in my library. Anyone got any ideas.
Oh yeah, this would be circa 1989 or so.
That sounds like the pcbackup program from the PC Tools suite from
Central Point.
http://www.oldskool.org/guides/dosbackupshootout includes at the
bottom a link to PC Tols 6:
http://www.oldskool.org/guides/dosbackupshootout/Central%20Point%20PC%20Too…
Kind regards,
Alex.
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