New subject: PDP-11/44 boot prompt

31 Oct 1998

] Sydex (http://www.sydex.com/) has some very excellent software
] available for dealing with "foreign" floppy formats, and can deal
] with many (but not all) 8" floppy formats.  Instead of going into
] ...

...
 If you are referring to teledisk, it is worth noting
that they no
longer offer a single-user non-commercial license; they stopped
offerring it as shareware in 1991, and is now solely a commercial
product with a licensing fee of $150.  The shareware version that
can still be found out there is now "warez" - illegal, copyable
only by pimply-faced HaKkErZ with bad breath and no morals.  :-/
I exchanged e-mail with them recently about this, and though they
were polite, they refused to consider licensing it for less than
their stated price. 
As I use Teledisk for commerce, I don't have any problems with
the $150 fee.  I agree, it is a shame that the shareware version
can no longer be registered for a small fee, especially because
large quantities of freely distributable software is out there
in Teledisk-image format (for example, all the POS-related
RX50's for DEC Pro's are archived at Uppsula in teledisk format.)

...
 Anybody know of any reasonable alternatives, for those
of us that
are hampered by rules against theft? 
Sydex does have a product which fills many of the same needs
that Teledisk does, and this is CopyQM.  It supports 3.5", 5.25",
and 8" floppies and even has some features that Teledisk didn't
have.  I don't have as much experience with it as I do with Teledisk,
but CopyQM does have the advantage that single-user licenses
are available for only US$25.

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teledisk (was: 8 inch floppies on PC's (was: TRS-80 Model II...