Archiving old discs... - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

14 Sep 1999

...
 I picked up an AppleII CP/M card and software yesterday
and causes me to
raise a question...

I have a ton of old 5.25" discs from TRS-80's, Apples and etc. Can I use a
IBM Compatible and a disc image program (like scopy) to archive these
discs? 
In some cases, yes, you can use something like Teledisk to make foreign
disk images on the PC.  In other cases (most notably Apple floppies) only
the original hardware on the Apple, or very specialized hardware
on the PC, can read/write the disks.

...
   If not, how can I archive these programs? 
You can read, for example, Apple disks on the Apple and move the image
data over a serial cable to a PC (or your favorite workstation/mini/mainframe).

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