Re: Transfer 8050 disks

Anders,

I've had good success transfering 8x50 disks using a B128, serial cable, cbmlink, and my own CBMXfer (not really required if you can use the cbmlink commandline interface). The nice thing about the B128/600 is its built-in RS-232 port, so there are no specialized cabling or adapters to build.

Steve




----- Original Message ----
> From: Anders Carlsson <anders.carlsson@sfks.se>
> To: cbm-hackers@musoftware.de
> Sent: Fri, November 27, 2009 3:00:39 AM
> Subject: Transfer 8050 disks (was: PET 2001 Fix)
> 
> Bil Herd wrote:
> 
> > When we included the Monitor program in the TED (Plus4, etc) that allowed 
> disassembly and display of memory the head of Commodore England sent a Telex 
> saying that we had created the perfect machine for software piracy.
> 
> Surely a few earlier Commodore machines had some sort of built-in monitor, at 
> least the CBM-II series? Now again, those were expensive and meant for 
> businesses while the C16 and Plus/4 clearly were home computers. I presume 
> software piracy back then was almost entirely associated with home users and 
> games. However I have come across a number of Datatronic administrative software 
> packages which require different key dongles in the cartridge port to run on the 
> CBM 700. Interestingly enough almost all of them origin from earlier PET 3000 
> and 8000 versions, on which there was no cost effective way to create dongles, 
> thus the business software on the PET side seemed completely unprotected?
> 
> For the moment being, I'll archive those PET/CBM software packages that seem 
> meaningful: Basic compilers not already present on Zimmers etc, but skip those 
> billing, factoring and store handling softwares entirely in Swedish. A bunch of 
> these are in 8050 or 8250 format which complicates the archiving further.
> 
> Since we have have drifted off the original topic, could anyone suggest the best 
> or easiest way to archive 8050 formatted floppy disks? These are my choice of 
> weapons:
> 
> PET 3032 / 4032 / 8032-SK / CBM 610 / CBM 710
> VIC-20 / C64 / C128
> Drives: 2031 / 8050 / 8250 / 8250LP / 1541-II
> Interfaces 1: VIC-20 IEEE interface, possibly C64 IEEE interface
> Interfaces 2: C2N232I, uIEC/SD (with CBM 610 patch), XM1541
> 
> The only possibly interesting cable I have not built would be a cbmlink cable, 
> but I assume the C2N232I in many ways fill the same function. Obviously I would 
> need the names of some good copying programs too. Some of those interfaces shut 
> out access to other drives, i.e. it tends to be hard to use an IEC and an IEEE 
> drive at the same time on a VIC/C64, but it depends on which IEEE interface one 
> got..
> 
> Best regards
> 
> -- Anders Carlsson
> 
> 
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