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Re: Just got //e...how do I transfer stuff over to it?
"schmidtd" <schmidtd@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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On Dec 8, 12:11 pm, "Albert D. Kallal" <PleaseNOOOsPAMmkal...@msn.com>
wrote:
> Do the USB to serial cables work with this stuff, or does one need a real
> serial port on the PC side of things? These days, serial ports are
> becomming
> less and less common, especially on laptops...
Yes, once a USB to RS-232 adapter is installed, it's indistinguishable
from the software end, and so it "just works" -
http://adtpro.sourceforge.net/connectionsserial.html#USB_cabling
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Excellent...thanks for that link. I kind of thought the usb->serial should
work...
I ask since I was thinking that I should probably archive (transfer) out any
floppy disks and things that I just not had the heart to throw out......
I knew a fairly large group of apple II friends of mine. One of the great
things we did was de-secure a whole bunch of protected apple II disks. In
some cases, we did this painstakingly by dissembling the boot loader step by
step for that particular disk. The result was a factory experience disk
without protection.
While Asimov and other archives exists, so many of the images have "cracked
by" on their title page.
I have a good number of un-locked disks in "factory" format without any
graffiti on the title pages. I thinking for history reasons, having the
disks without that graffiti on them would be far better for those archives
(I do think that images with the graffiti should also be kept, as they also
capture part of the computer culture from that time frame - but, ANY disk
with graffiti on the title page should be marked as such in those on-line
archives).
Perhaps I should offer (up load) many of the images I have where there is NO
alterative disk image without graffiti on the title page to one of those
archives before I never get around to doing this at all...
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Albert D. Kallal
Edmonton, Alberta Canada
pleaseNOOSpamKallal@msn.com