... And thank you for it. I bought one for the TPPD2 recently and can
say the attention to detail is clear. As a favor I would expect a
generic floppy with a hand wriiten label. The disk I got from
arcadeshopper is on display on a shelf.
On Tue, Jul 14, 2020, 10:32 PM Brian K. White <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 7/14/20 8:36 PM, Ben Strewens wrote:
> I have one of these drives, but no disk for it. I was able to do
the PC
> hack to make it work, but I'd rather have the disk. Is there
anyone in
> Canada that could make one for me for a small fee?
I made up a bunch of TPDD1 and TPDD2 disks from NOS disks,
designed and
laserprinted nice labels on good glossy stock, and they are for
sale on
arcadeshopper.com <http://arcadeshopper.com>
(I don't run that shop, I just sent him the stuff to distribute
that way
so they are discoverable, and so that he can deal with 100 different
mailings and I only have to deal with one.)
I DID pay it forward several times over, the fact that someone
sent me a
disk for free, and made several copies for free for people for a
while
before making one big batch and dumping them on Greg to deal with via
his store. (and then a couple times saw that disk appear on ebay
immediately after spending time and one of my few nos 720K disks
sending
it to someone for free incuding mail...)
I do feel a little self-conscious or defensive saying something is
for
sale that should just be a favor, but it's only a favor a few times,
after that it's a time-consuming chore, and I don't want to have a
2nd
job as an ebay seller. So I just slogged through 20 of each in one
big
job, and sent them all to arcadeshopper in one shipment, charged him
enough to cover the disks, labels, bags, shipping, and now it's
someone
else's actual compensated job to deal with mailing the individual
ones
out any time someone needs one.
There is no way to hurry the process of making a disk with the
included
backup utility, especially if you test-boot each one, and it puts
wear
on the drive. Especially the TPDD1 disks are a pain because the TPDD1
bootstrap procedure is a pain.
The same goes for the DVI disks for 100, DVI disks for 200, the TPDD
cables, and the DVI cables.
Plus I thought, being a store, it would have a better chance of
turning
up in google searches when a new person got a TPDD on ebay or
smething,
and they go to search for info about it, they would have a better
chance
of finding out that the lost special disk or cable is available, vs a
post or two here where only a few people who happen to be on the
list at
that time ever see it. I don't know how true that's turning out to
be,
but it's got to be better than nothing.
--
bkw
> On 2020-07-14 7:32 p.m., Doug Jackson wrote:
>> Ohhh Ahhhh,
>>
>> Stephen, are you hinting that with an actual drive I could
recreate my
>> own TPPD 1 disk? That would be cool. I am just about to do a
belt
>> replacement on one who's belt turned into black goo - When I
removed
>> the belt it literally went everywhere - and then the cleanup of
the
>> workshop bench was spectacular. Alcohol worked a treat :-)
>>
>> While there are beautiful solid state versions of the TPPD now,
but
>> the concept of a drive that clicks and whirs is very appealing to
>> me, Just like the 8" drives in my PDP11.
>>
>> Kindest regards,
>>
>> Doug Jackson
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>> On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 10:08 AM Stephen Adolph
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>> <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
>>
>> I believe that it is just not possible to use PC hardware ...
>> drive, controller... to read a TPDD disk.
>>
>> The disk is encoded with FM whereas a normal drive is MFM. Or
>> maybe that is backwards.
>>
>> Not sure but possibly a Catweasel drive can be used. But
that is
>> specialized.
>>
>> Perhaps though a real TPDD drive connected to the pc is good
>> enough? I think there is software for that .
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, July 14, 2020, RETRO Innovations
>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
<mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
>>
>> Is there really no way to read the 3.5" disks in a PC
(even an
>> older one, via DOS, with a discrete FDC IC)? I'd like to
>> backup my TPDD disks, but my M100 is set up for the DVI
right
>> now, and I'd prefer to not redo all of that.
>>
>> Jim
>>
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