Re: Ressurecting Old Apple ][ disks

[jwa@sugarloaf.cse.nau.edu (James W Abendschan)]

In article <PFILE.93Aug9180026@dingo.cs.wisc.edu> pfile@dingo.cs.wisc.edu (Rob Pfile) writes:
>
>I recently brought an apple //c back from home with all of my old disks
>from my apple ][ salad days.
>
>So, I'm really into getting back into Apple ][ stuff. 
>
>One problem I am having is that some of the bits on my disks (10 years
>old, some of them) have evaporated. Is there any copy program out there (I
>have heard Locksmith 6.0 might be able to do this) that might be able to
>salvage some of my disks?

I had a copy (well, an original, the manual was cool) of Bag of Tricks.. 
which included an excellent utility to find and recover files on a baked
3.3 disk.  I believe it was called Fixcat.  Very cool.

I no longer have the original [sniff] but I have a copy somewhere.  If
you like, I could possibly email you a copy or something [a uuencoded
Dalton's Disk Disentigrator image possibly, I dunno.  I have no comm
tools for my //e except DDD and AE Pro "The Professional." circa '84.  Yow.

>thanks for the help!

Sure.

James

PS: was locksmith 6.0 the one with the incredibly fast disk copy program?
that was totally impressive.. the first time I saw it in action my jaw
dropped.  Maybe that was 5.  Who knows.  I use disk muncher 13.0 nowadays.

PPS: what's the cheapest RAM/80 col card that I can get for my //e?  I want
to get a 256k RAM card and I've found one place [Sun Remarketing] that I can
get it from for about $100.  Any [cheaper] ideas?


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