From: "Dave Dunfield" <dave04a at
dunfield.com>
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.
Hi Dave
I've not had the need for this so far but expect
to sometime in the future. Most of the CP/M machines
that I have either are common and have disk with them
or are so uncommon that I've needed to hand build
the disk from scratch.
I have used the serial port to transfer information
but once I have the basic core working, I just transfer
files. If it is a binary file, I've used Intel Hex
format and DDT to save to a binary.
It would be interesting to compile a web page with all
the different tricks used to handle the various image
and file transfer problems of these older systems. Things
like how to connect a 8 inch disk or a little source
code that shows how to do console to disk transfers using
the CP/M bios. One could include things like my H8/H89
image transfer program and my Olivetti M20 disk image
building code. I have code from another fellow to move
Polymorphic disk images from a Poly 881x to a PC with
xmodem( windows supports ).
There are so many ways to skin a cat. Each has a slightly
different advantage under some conditions.
Just a thought
Dwight