10 Dec
2012
10 Dec
'12
9:49 a.m.
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
Thank you for all your effort in this! Honestly this
is an area I'm not
that interested in, BUT, I really wanted to see Don's work preserved. Years
ago, he helped me with info for my IMSAI-8080, which I always appreciated.
Agreed. Don helped me with my Kaypro when I first got it. Very happy
to see all of his work preserved.
Having inspected the zip file, what are the .lbl files? I thought
they might be disk labels, but the first one I looked at was a single
line of digits, repeating in fistfuls. Is it metadata for the .td0
file?
-ethan
10:32 a.m.
On 12/10/2012 10:06 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
On 12/10/12 9:49 AM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
They're boot-track images for use with the 22Disk "format" function.
When a text definition file is converted to a binary one, every entry
with a "LABEL" keyword and accompanying file incorporates the LBL into
the binary definition.
--Chuck
Having inspected the zip file, what are the .lbl
files?
I bet they are dot-matrix printable labels.
There are LOTS of disks with them on them. 
10:09 a.m.
On 12/10/12 9:49 AM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Having inspected the zip file, what are the .lbl
files?
here is an example from an Alphatronic disk. There are lots of disks
with these sorts of labels on them
http://bitsavers.org/bits/Alphatronic/CPM/ALPHA1.jpg
10:25 a.m.
On Mon, 10 Dec 2012, Al Kossow wrote:
On 12/10/12 9:49 AM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
That reminds me - if anyone here has a Royal AlphaTronic PC that they'd
like to part with, please contact me off list.
thx.
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Having inspected the zip file, what are the .lbl
files?
here is an example from an Alphatronic disk. There are lots of disks
with these sorts of labels on them
http://bitsavers.org/bits/Alphatronic/CPM/ALPHA1.jpg 
12:03 p.m.
New subject: Don Maslin's archive... label
----- Original Message ----
From: Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org>
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Sent: Mon, December 10, 2012 10:17:28 AM
Subject: Re: Don Maslin's archive...
On 12/10/12 9:49 AM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Having inspected the zip file, what are the .lbl
files?
here is an example from an Alphatronic disk. There are lots of disks
with these sorts of labels on them
http://bitsavers.org/bits/Alphatronic/CPM/ALPHA1.jpg
Yes, that is his label. his printer has had those 2 stripes for a long
time. I have many here
- Jerry
1:38 p.m.
New subject: Don Maslin's archive... label
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Jerry Wright <g-wright at att.net> wrote:
That's rather the sort of thing I expected, but my new question is
"what can make that label from these files?"
In particular, I'm looking at kay2.lbl (since I have a Kaypro 2) and
it's one long line of 10240 chars where it looks like a sequence of
512 of the same character in a row. For this file, it's 512 repeats
of each of:
0538164927AFDIBGEJCH
I see no control chars or anything to indicate printer codes.
Did I manage to find a corrupt one on my first time out?
-ethan
On 12/10/12
9:49 AM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> Having inspected the zip file, what are the .lbl files?
here is an example from an Alphatronic disk. There are lots of disks
with these sorts of labels on them
http://bitsavers.org/bits/Alphatronic/CPM/ALPHA1.jpg 
2:03 p.m.
New subject: Don Maslin's archive... label
>>> Having inspected the zip file, what are
the .lbl files?
On Mon, 10 Dec 2012, Ethan Dicks wrote:
here is an
example from an Alphatronic disk. There are lots of disks
with these sorts of labels on them
http://bitsavers.org/bits/Alphatronic/CPM/ALPHA1.jpg
That's rather the sort of
thing I expected, but my new question is
"what can make that label from these files?"
In particular, I'm looking at kay2.lbl (since I have a Kaypro 2) and
it's one long line of 10240 chars where it looks like a sequence of
512 of the same character in a row. For this file, it's 512 repeats
of each of:
0538164927AFDIBGEJCH
I see no control chars or anything to indicate printer codes.
Did I manage to find a corrupt one on my first time out?
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