Re: Apple DOS 3.2 help! HOW?

[mister_boffo@hotmail.com (Mr. Boffo)]

On 25 Nov 2000 08:51:29 +0100, pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter) wrote:

>In article <01c05666$72443720$2a294ad1@tracyb>,
>DarkCode <no-one@microsoft-sucks.com> wrote:
> 
>> MUFFIN transfers data from 13 sector disk to a 16 sector disk.
> 
>MUFFIN transfers data from a 13-sector Apple DOS disk only.  MUFFIN
>is useless on 13-sector disks containing other OS'es.  Yes, there are
>such 13-sector disks: neither Apple Pascal nor ProDOS ever made it to
>13-sector disks, but Apple CP/M briefly existed on 13-sector disks.
>I still have a 13-sector Apple CP/M disk from an early version of the
>SoftCard package.  I never use it of course, it's merely a
>collertor's item nowadays.  I did boot it a few months ago though, to
>run DDT on it and figure out the disk parameters used in the
>13-sector version of Apple CP/M.

My dear sir, as a member of the Preservation of Ridiculously Old And
Useless Bits group, I beseech you to make a backup copy of that
13-sector disk at some point in the future. 

As you may know, old disks can suffer from "bit rot", from a variety
of sources.. strong magnetic fields, and even the oxide getting
unglued from the plastic media. Your collector's item may eventually
turn into a pretty disk with a nice label.. and no readable data.

Whoops, the label adhesive dried out, and cracked. So now all you
have is this pretty disk, with a smudged spot where there WAS a
label.. and no readable data, either..

Who wants to play disk-frisbee?

-Mr. Boffo

Email: mister_boffo@hotmail.com