Re: Looking for directions on how to backup The Bilestoad

[Hot Rod <hotrod.apple2@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday, March 20, 2013 12:18:33 AM UTC-5, roger....@gmail.com wrote:
> I was able to get a EDD3 copy to duplicate the original but being a nibble copy still doesn't get it to where I think it should be for archiving purposes.  ADTpro looked like it copied out a few of the first blocks in standard mode then fails on the the rest. FWIW http://ge.tt/2TBWHcb/v/0?c Booting it in AppleWin drops to monitor at 803? Good Bad? Mostly bad?
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> Problems with ADT's nibble transfer.  Locks up after reading the first read.  Possibly thinking?  Thirty mins later and no we're locked up.  Tested it out with a DOS 3.3 disk and it did the same thing only didn't wait another 30 mins.
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> Little rusty on the tools from the BBS days, is there a utility to read/compress nibble copies into a format that could be transferred over modem?  
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OK, so if you have a semi-working nibble copy, you might be able to use SST to create two images that can then be transfered to a PC via regular ADT.

re: ADT hanging though, does it work OK in 'regular' mode?  Maybe Dave can comment on that aspect.

I'll have a peek at the artifact you uploaded and see if there's anything that can be derived.

I did look through the file version, and there are no remnants of the RWTS left in it.