Re: Media migration - archiving old computer floppies onto CDR

[Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net>]

Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:

: Thus, the easiest way to archive your old Apple II
: software is to store them on a IIGS hard drive partition.
: This can be a ProDOS 32MB partition or an HFS
: partition of easily 1GB or more.  But the easiest way
: is to connect a 100MB Zip disk to the IIGS and copy
: (or ShrinkIt GS archive) all your disks to the Zip disk
: formatted as an HFS volume.

: Then take the Zip disk to the PC.  Then use your
: CDR burner to duplicate the Zip volume onto CD.
: Sure, you waste 500+ MB of the CDR's space, but
: it is easier.  Of course if you use a 1GB Jazz drive
: partitioned to 650MB HFS instead, you won't waste
: any space.

Even in these days of $1.50 blank CDs, I shudder at the thought of wasting
disc space. I have my old Quadra 700 set up as a dedicated CD burner. It
has an external CD600 and an APS CD-RW connected, and a 2 gig internal hard
disk. The hard disk is partitioned with three volumes exactly 650 mb each,
with the remainder left as a boot volume. I use ethernet to get files to the
scratch volumes. I've burned HFS data discs containing quicktimes mostly, but
some backup discs and quite a few audio discs too. With this scratch disk
method, you can get CDs exactly full. I only burn full discs.

I don't have enough Apple II stuff to fill up a 230 mb magneto optical disk,
let alone a CD, but I might try burning some stuff eventually. In HFS format
of course.

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