----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark J. Blair" <n...@nf6x.net> To: "Model 100 Discussion Discussion" <m100@lists.bitchin100.com> Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2016 9:10 PM Subject: Re: [M100] New command line tool for TPDD and TPDD2
>> On May 22, 2016, at 18:05, Mike Stein <mhs.st...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Are the files from the utility disk(s) really not archived anywhere? AFAIK > they're all ordinary files, i.e. no special boot sectors etc. so why would it > be a problem to copy them to a PC and make them available, and then recreate > the utility disk from them? I thought Steve had done that but I can only find > the FLOPPY.CO files. > > I don't have a TPDD so maybe I'm missing something but I didn't think this > was a big problem... ++++++++ I haven't been following this thread closely because I'm distracted by other things, but I do have a TPDD (or is it a TPDD 2? I have to check) so maybe I can help archive a utility disk? -- Mark J. Blair, NF6X <n...@nf6x.net> http://www.nf6x.net/ ++++++++ Hi Mark; forgot you had one of these among your many 'bigger irons'... ;-) I'm just surprised that the utility disk files aren't already out there somewhere and that creating a disk seems to be an issue; I thought that when this has come up in the past it was just a straightforward Format the disk and (Wild)Copy the files to it... But it would be good to know which version you have, JIC; the disks are different AFAIK. m
