Re: Escaping Data Rot

[scott@alfter.DIESPAMMERSDIE.us (Scott Alfter)]

In article <4BA6DFCC.16265.usenet_csa2@a2central.com>,
Tristan <tristan@a2central.com.remove-7km-this> wrote:
>On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:25:56 +0000, Scott Alfter wrote:
>> I might have to pick up an FC5025 after all.  If a jumper is all it
>> takes to read the many flippies I've been sitting on all these years,
>> archiving my Apple II stuff to CD or DVD just got a whole lot easier.
>> 
>Like a real masochist I tried a lot of different backup methods. The 
>(rather convoluted) method I settled on was this:
>
>*Use the IIgs to dump an image of the disk (either using one of my daisy 
>chain drives from my platinum or my 80 track Atlas-8)
>*Save the image via localtalk to my G3 beige.
>*Have the G3 set up with Windows sharing (which I accessed using linux. 
>heh.)

Recent posts have suggested that the jumper settings on the drive didn't
make any difference for reading back sides of flippies with an FC5025, so
something along those lines is what I was most likely going to end up doing. 
It'd be fairly slow going if I do the compression on the Apple II side with
ShrinkIt or GShrinkIt; are you archiving compressed or uncompressed images?

(I could probably fit my entire collection on a CD-ROM even without
compression, but it still seems like somewhat of a waste to not compress the
images...especially in a format that'd be readable by popping the disc into
a CD-ROM-equipped Apple II.)

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