Re: Disk Image to cassette tape

["Sir Cain" <rcain3@mindspring.com>]

I had a program called COS (Cassette Operating System), I think, that came
on an old Micro disk.  It would break up an Disk image into four or five
parts and save them to cassette (or restore from cassette to disk).  It was
not a complete Operating System, but more like a utility program.  And of
course it was slow.  I'd give more specific info, but I've recently moved
and all my old computer books (and software) are still in boxes.

Greg Buchner wrote in message ...
>In article <3622A3F5.D7702F72@swbell.net>, rubywand@swbell.net wrote:
>
>>     Is it possible to save a 140kb disk image to cassette? Yes; but,
>>you would need to break up the image file into smaller pieces. One idea
>>is to add your own routines to do something like read chunks of the disk
>>image file (perhaps 4096 bytes per chunk) and write the data to tape.
>>Then you would need a Big File tape read routine to read the chunks and
>>put them on disk.
>
>I at one time did have a program, was probably DOS 3.3 that did copy
>disks back and forth to the tape drive.  I seem to remember that it was
>supposed to be able to fit five disks on one side of a 90 minute tape.
>
>This was probably twelve years ago and that's all that I remember about
>it.  Never used it, so can't be certain about any of this.
>
>Greg B.
>
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