Re: Vintage Vista V-1200 5 disk changer for apple //e

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

aiiadict@gmail.com wrote:
> This could be great for archiving a bunch of 5.25 floppies..
>
> perhaps just modifying a large CD changer, using some slim
> 5.25 pc heads..  stick a ton of 5.25 disks in it, and tell the
> apple to start making DSKs...  perhaps modify asimov or
> another dsk maker program to change the disk after the
> current one has been arkived.

Cool!  But, IIRC, the disks had to be pre-loaded in a
cassette, kind of like a car CD changer, so you couldn't
just "run a stack".

Of course, there were once a lot of 5.25" disk duplicating
machines that could be modified to do bulk disk handling...

-michael

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