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Re: I wonder if it would be complicated to design...

On Thu, 9 May 2013, Bill Buckels wrote:


"David Schmidt" <schmidtd@my-deja.com> wrote:


That's the beauty of the '3000... it gives you one more layer of
indirection (disk images vs. partitions) so that moving data around in the
real world is just that much simpler.  Yes, CiderPress+CF cards works.
But 32MB .po images are simply files to all operating systems

and tools.

You make a good case David. Thanks again for the good thoughts.

Bill
My idea would have the 3.5" disks formatted in such a way that they could be read by the same tools used to read MS-DOS disks. (dd, raread/rawrite, and I've thrown together such tools myself).
Basically, a hardware implementation of the slot 5 floppy drive in Dapple (which maps to the A: drive). 

-uso.