Re: Disk Image to cassette tape

[TWS <adoyson@nccn.net>]

I have this program somewhere.  It was called Cassette Backup or something like
that.  It's on one of my old 5.25 disks.

Does someone want a copy of the program?

Sir Cain wrote:

> I had a program called COS (Cassette Operating System), I think, that came
> on an old Micro disk.  It would break up an Disk image into four or five
> parts and save them to cassette (or restore from cassette to disk).  It was
> not a complete Operating System, but more like a utility program.  And of
> course it was slow.  I'd give more specific info, but I've recently moved
> and all my old computer books (and software) are still in boxes.
>
> Greg Buchner wrote in message ...
> >In article <3622A3F5.D7702F72@swbell.net>, rubywand@swbell.net wrote:
> >
> >>     Is it possible to save a 140kb disk image to cassette? Yes; but,
> >>you would need to break up the image file into smaller pieces. One idea
> >>is to add your own routines to do something like read chunks of the disk
> >>image file (perhaps 4096 bytes per chunk) and write the data to tape.
> >>Then you would need a Big File tape read routine to read the chunks and
> >>put them on disk.
> >
> >I at one time did have a program, was probably DOS 3.3 that did copy
> >disks back and forth to the tape drive.  I seem to remember that it was
> >supposed to be able to fit five disks on one side of a 90 minute tape.
> >
> >This was probably twelve years ago and that's all that I remember about
> >it.  Never used it, so can't be certain about any of this.
> >
> >Greg B.
> >
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