Re: Media migration - archiving

[brian.hammack@rook.wa.com (Brian Hammack)]

 Curtus chanted almost zenlike:

 CC(| The problem I have with "media migration", i.e. having to copy
    | your data over
    | to a different form of media every 10-15 years when the media
    | starts to die,
    | is that there is no easy way to do this with copy protected
    | floppy disks on

That's inherent to ANY copy-protected media, the point of the maker was
to not make it copyable.  Law of physics.  :)

 CC(| For an Apple, use Dalton Disk Disintegrator and null modem the
    | images over at 9600 baud.

a) Why so slow?  19200 connection on a //e or 56k on a GS.

b) DDD is nice, but there's also Shrink It.  Now, I haven't compared to
see whether one or the other rejects certain non-protected setups, or
even protected ones (though DDD is the preference for the protected
disks I've seen but I haven't done that much //e wArEz hunting).

 CC(| Any suggestions on how to archive these disks onto CDR would be
    | appreciated.

People are already cutting CD-R's with disk images.  Various burners
have HFS and even ProDOS-partitioning capacity so we can read and
understand properly the disks.  Your project, or some form thereof,
is already being done -- but few people will speak aloud about the
copy-protected disks they have archived on CD since usually if a floppy
has copy-protection said floppy's copyright still stands today.

 * 2qwk! 2.04 * WYSIWYG:  "What You See Isn't What You Get"