Re: Disk Image to cassette tape

[TWS <adoyson@nccn.net>]

Disk Image to Cassette?

How about this?  Use a DISK.IMAGE utility to turn your 143k floppy into a 143k
binary file.

THEN:  either save the file as a few Smaller files (You have to SAVE and LOAD to
cassette from the MONITOR when DOS is loaded), or Save it directly to tape (you'd
need a long tape)

TWS wrote:

> 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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