Re: Writing diskette images to tape - Revisited

[Patrick Schaefer <PSchaefer@epost.de>]

Bryan Villados schrieb:

> ... With Disk-O-Tape, you can
> copy an entire DOS 3.3 diskette to inexpensive cassettes." I believe this
> came out of an early 1980's edition of Creative Computing, and unfortunately
> the copy does not have the month/year on the pages. 

I've bought this package on ebay some time ago. It is a plastic bag with
five pages of instructions and a cassette tape. The "registration card"
has an original handwritten signature from the author, Dann McCreary. 

You put a formatted diskette in your drive and enter 200.240R, then the
program installs itself. After that it can be started by entering BRUN
DISK-O-TAPE. The program asks for the disk, writes a header to the tape,
reads a few tracks, writes them to tape and so on. The whole process
takes 17 minutes.

To restore your data you put in a formatted disk and enter 200.240R from
the monitor. The DOS itself is not written to tape, therefore there may
be problems with the volume ID and startup program ("HELLO") name.


This is from the instructions, up to now I did not use the program. I
own two DAT machines, but my only cassette tape player is fitted in my
car...


Patrick