John Oliger disks
3 messages · 2009-04-05 → 2009-04-06 · Yahoo Group era · View archive on archive.org
Participants: zxbruno, Paul Anderson
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1. Re: [ts2068] re: John Oliger disks
Paul Anderson · Sun, 5 Apr 2009 07:37:
I was wondering if anyone remembered. No and yes. I have no idea how to change the timex floppies to a format that everyone can enjoy. My apologies to the group but I really would appreciate the assistance with the conversion.
Thanks,
Paul
----- Original Message -----
From: zxbruno
To: [email]
Sent: Sunday, April 05, 2009 7:31 AM
Subject: [ts2068] re: John Oliger disks
@Paul Anderson:
Any luck preserving the disks? Do you need help?
--- In [email], "Paul Anderson" <PANDERSN@...> wrote:
>
> Hello Everyone,
> I am up for sharing. However, I will need some guidance. I have tried several times to convert TS programs to the other formats, without success. So, I would really appreciate the help so that I can get better at re-formatting the programs and then help the community. I will send out an email to the group when I receive the disks. I love the TS computers but just kept everything on the TS format.
> Regards,
> Paul
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: zxbruno
> To: [email]
> Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 5:42 PM
> Subject: [ts2068] Re: Oliger Public Domain disks
>
>
> Question for Paul: Would you preserve the disks as digital copies and
> then share them with the TS community, the same way some of us do?
2. re: John Oliger disks
zxbruno · Sun, 05 Apr 2009 13:31
@Paul Anderson:
Any luck preserving the disks? Do you need help?
--- In [email], "Paul Anderson" <PANDERSN@...> wrote:
>
> Hello Everyone,
> I am up for sharing. However, I will need some guidance. I have tried several times to convert TS programs to the other formats, without success. So, I would really appreciate the help so that I can get better at re-formatting the programs and then help the community. I will send out an email to the group when I receive the disks. I love the TS computers but just kept everything on the TS format.
> Regards,
> Paul
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: zxbruno
> To: [email]
> Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 5:42 PM
> Subject: [ts2068] Re: Oliger Public Domain disks
>
>
> Question for Paul: Would you preserve the disks as digital copies and
> then share them with the TS community, the same way some of us do?
3. Re: John Oliger disks
zxbruno · Mon, 06 Apr 2009 01:39
To me this whole preservation thing really matters.
Please contact John Elliiot via his e-mail or the comp.sys.sinclair. I
will be forever grateful for the help he gave me when I had to preserve
software that I thought was lost forever in Timex 3" disks. He looks at
raw data from disk backups and figures out how to make tools to extract
it or convert it to something that can be loaded in emulators (for
example .TAP files, which can be the starting point to convert it to
something else).
John Elliot's e-mail:
[email]
John Elliot's Unix tools page (where you can find the command tool that
he was kind enough to put together for me):
http://www.seasip.demon.co.uk/ZX/unix.html
Comp.sys.sinclair via google groups (if you don't have a newsgroup
reader):
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.sinclair/topics?hl=en
With his help I'm sure you'll be able to create faithful backups of all
those disks. Once we have the raw data preserved we'll go from there. :)
--- In [email], "Paul Anderson" <PANDERSN@...> wrote:
>
> I was wondering if anyone remembered. No and yes. I have no idea how
to change the timex floppies to a format that everyone can enjoy. My
apologies to the group but I really would appreciate the assistance with
the conversion.
> Thanks,
> Paul
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: zxbruno
> To: [email]
> Sent: Sunday, April 05, 2009 7:31 AM
> Subject: [ts2068] re: John Oliger disks
>
>
> @Paul Anderson:
>
> Any luck preserving the disks? Do you need help?
>
> --- In [email], "Paul Anderson" PANDERSN@ wrote:
> >
> > Hello Everyone,
> > I am up for sharing. However, I will need some guidance. I have
tried several times to convert TS programs to the other formats, without
success. So, I would really appreciate the help so that I can get better
at re-formatting the programs and then help the community. I will send
out an email to the group when I receive the disks. I love the TS
computers but just kept everything on the TS format.
> > Regards,
> > Paul
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: zxbruno
> > To: [email]
> > Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 5:42 PM
> > Subject: [ts2068] Re: Oliger Public Domain disks
> >
> >
> > Question for Paul: Would you preserve the disks as digital copies
and
> > then share them with the TS community, the same way some of us do?
>