Re: Hardware musings

["Greg Andrzejewski" <pressyourluck85@yahoo.com>]

"mdj" <mdj.mdj@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Michael J. Mahon wrote:
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>> > Then there's all those out there who would enjoy the convenience of
>> > adding an Apple 5.25" drive to their PC's to make imaging all the stuff
>> > that's available now simpler.
>>
>> What do you mean by "imaging all the stuff that's available now"?
>>
>> Do you mean reading real disks and imaging them (which involves the
>> complexities we are discussing) or writing real disks from the images
>> available now (which is quite different, since they are almost all
>> "normal" images).
>
> Sorry, I meant to say, writing disks from available images. While
> there's a dozen ways of doing it, they all 'seem' quite complex
> compared to just plugging a Disk II into a PC
>
> Matt
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Exactly. ADT is great, but how many new PC's these days even come with 
serial ports? Then there's folks like me, who just could never get ADT to 
work. I had the serial link going, dumped the hex that containted ADT and 
DOS 3.3, but ADT would always hang on me. I've been following the recent 
updates to both ADT and the host program and it looks like some of the 
issues I experienced may have been corrected. Despite the fact that I have 
since acquired better ways to move data around, I still see the value in a 
Disk ][ USB.

Reading this thread, it seems that copy protection is and will always be 
best defeated using a real Apple II. So why not make a device that 
writes/makes images of unprotected (normal) floppies? It would be a quick 
and foolproof way to not only copy whole disks, but also sneakernet files 
around.

-Greg