On 23 Dec 2011 at 14:47, Gene Buckle wrote:
I'm happy for you. It still doesn't lead
anyone to think that 22disk
is available any longer. You might want to go out on a limb and do
something wild and crazy like mention somewhere on the homepage that
22disk is still available. I know, I know - crazy talk.
Sigh. We quit advertising because quite honestly, people now lack
the *hardware* to do for themselves. Sample questions:
1) Can I use my PC with Windows 7 64-bit and a USB floppy drive?
2) I found a floppy drive on Craigslist, how do I hook it to my
laptop so I can use your software?
3) I ordered 22Disk from you people and it won't read my Brother
typewriter floppies.
4) Is MS-DOS the same as Windows?
You get the idea.
I've worked out two "re-do" versions of 22Disk since the one everyone
seems to know. One deals with really oddball formats (differently-
sized sectors, weird skews, etc.) and the other is a Win32 product
with a kernel-mode floppy driver. But now, even floppy interfaces
are dead, so aside from a couple of OEM sales, we've let them drop.
We'd just as soon encourage people to send us their media and have us
do the work for them. Very often, what they think they've got isn't
what they really have.
It's better that they should contact us rather than be bitterly
disappointed.
It seems that most CP/M stuff is finally really dead, but for a few
industrial exceptions. In the last two weeks, not one job was
related to CP/M. Word processors and oddly, two ISIS-II jobs (one
from an MDS-800 (MMFM) and the other from an iPDS
(MFM)).
Now, if someone can help to design a web page for me that addresses
that aspect, I'd be grateful. I might even show my gratitude. I am
NOT a visually-oriented person--most flashy web sites are horrible
muddles to me.
Thanks,
Chuck