On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 21:02:15 +0000 (UTC)
Joan Leach <[email protected]> wrote:

> Randy, I'm not sure, but I wonder if an old Central Point Copy2PC
> Option Board could make a copy of that boot disk. Anyone back in the
> try it? Joan in Reno

There's nothing on the DVI disks that are that exotic... Single-sided 40
track, 18 sector/track, 256byte/sector. There are Teledisk images on
Club 100 (I think).

At one point I was messing around with them on the CoCo. They are
almost the same file-system as CoCo Disk BASIC (Microsoft FAT-8). With
CoCo Disk BASIC patched for 40 tracks, it would be aprox. one
weekend's programming to have a BASIC util to read/write the DVI
disks... It would take a bit longer under OS-9 (I have a DECB program
for reading CP/M disks, it's not that hard to replace the filesystem
parts.)

Unfortunately I don't have a DVI, so I left the project at "it could
be done". :-(

 
Willard
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Willard Goosey  [email protected]
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