CP/M serial disk image transfer.

Hi Guys, Having a large quantity of 8" disks that I need to archive/send to someone, and neither of us having teledisk working on an compatible 8" drive, and not having nearly enough 8" media to spare to send physical copies... I have created another serial link disk imaging program. This one reads and writes CP/M images to and from physical diskettes of a connected CP/M system. Due to the fact that CP/M does not provide a general means of reading and writing the system tracks, system tracks can only be backed up on diskettes which have them recorded in a format compatible with the BIOS driver. The user accessable portion of the disk can always be backed up and restored. This is a command line program that runs on a PC, and communicates with the target system via a small resident "client". The program can transfer the client to the CP/M system by "typing it in" through DDT. Still in the testing stages, I have it to the point where I can quite reliably backup and restore diskette images. So far I've tested it using a NorthStar Horizon (actually my simulator running on another PC), and the Orion-V (an STD bus system with 8" disks). If anyone wants to play with it, please drop me a line, and I can send a preliminary version - once I am happy that everything is working correctly, I will get it posted to my site. Regards, Dave -- dave04a (at) Dave Dunfield dunfield (dot) Firmware development services & tools: www.dunfield.com com Collector of vintage computing equipment: http://www.parse.com/~ddunfield/museum/index.html