Re: Backing up Pascal Disks...

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Chris M wrote:

>Does anyone know how to go about backing up Pascal disks?
>I've got an original/complete boxed copy of Apple Pascal 1.2, and
>(from eBay) I grabbed that "APPLE II PASCAL SOFTWARE - 29 Disks" from
>DynaComp that they keep listing every few days.
>
>Here's an eBay link:
>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3088447918&category=3802
>
>I tried using ADT and it doesn't like the disk format, so it's
>probably not a 16-sector disk or something.
>
>Anyone know how to back these up?

Their low-level format is a normal 16-sector disk.

One of the "APPLE" disks in the Pascal system has an intentionally
bad sector for copy protection.  The system tries to read this sector
and complains if it doesn't get an error.

Most other (non-copy-protected) Pascal disks should work fine
with ADT.

-michael

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