Re: Bitten by my own "cleverness"

["mr. brad" <mrbradremove@ll.net>]

i forgot to mention that i have tried 2 apple 40sc drives to get tape 
backups to work...and the little pink wheel inside basically disentigrated 
due to age (15 plus yrs prob)

i have a mint one that has never been used..but been too afraid to fire the 
beast up yet

i assume someone who fixes/or fixed vcr's could find a replacement little 
tape wheel deal y bob and fix this

(beware the apple 40sc tape backups on ebay...the rubber wheels rot just for 
your info)

another project i was gonna try

but i expect a person could find something equiv from vcr tape stock or such 
and fix such...i have more then a few dc2120 tapes from when i used to 
backup my 80s bbs pkgs back in the day

(same prob they have with the moon landing tapes..assuming they find them 
again...got the media..but where is the old equip to run the media on..so it 
goes)

brad
former sysop lost-gonzo.com

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message 
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> mr. brad wrote:
>> "Polymorph" <polymorph69@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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>>>Hi All,
>>>
>>>I thought someone out there might find this amusing, as it did me after
>>>the initial shock hit me. Just remeber that I have only recently
>>>returned to my Apple after not doing so for over 15 years.
>>>
>>>Basically I was running through all of my old 5.25" disks and basically
>>>taking an inventory of what was on each disk and making sure that they
>>>all worked. One of my disks had a few games which could be BRUN and I
>>>had obviously setup a nice menu back in the day (one with scrolling and
>>>flashing options).
>>>
>>>Anyway, I thought I'd just exit out of the menu and see what else was
>>>on the disk, so I hit CTRL-C and did a CATALOG. Then after a few
>>>seconds I heard the unmistakable "chk...chk...chk...chk" - yes the disk
>>>was being formatted!!! Then it hit me. I remember being a wise guy back
>>>in the old days and using DOS BOSS to change all of the DOS 3.3
>>>commands as a basic form hiding my code - so I guess I had changed the
>>>CATALOG command to be INIT!!
>>>
>>>Talk about being bitten by my own smarts. I bet when I originally
>>>changed the commands I never once imagined that it would be me who fell
>>>prey to my devious ends.....   :-)
>>>
>>>I now will never know what else was on that disk.
>>>
>>>Anyone else done anything *A LONG* time ago and been bitten by it?
>>>
>>>cheers,
>>>-p
>>>
>>
>>
>> ah...back in my youth when i thought i'd always use my apple ii because 
>> apple being wise would make everything apple ii compatible in the 
>> future...so when i was using my apple VIX computer in 2006....i could 
>> still run the old commands....(yeah right like that 
>> happened....jobs/macs...the end of eden)
>>
>> i is gonna get bit a lot when/if i ever get around to archiving my 
>> collection of disks etc (anyone remember how to get a ramfast to work 
>> with a dc2120 mac tape drive for example..i did it once but remember it 
>> was a pain)
>
> Shouldn't be an issue unless you are trying to rescue old tape
> archives.  (That may be a little too late...  Does anyone have
> any longevity data on older backup tapes?)
>
> -michael
>
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