Re: Copy II Mac

-jeffB wrote:

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>On Feb 16, 5:59 pm, Highcountryrider <highcountryri..._at_email.domain.hidden> wrote:
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>>I have ftpd (is that a verb??) the disk image (4.2) tohttp://www.bmi.net/~high-countryrider/Utilities.image
>>and attached same as well.
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>Thanks; I'll see what I can do with them.
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>I've been corresponding with Ray about this offlist. I've resurrected
>my Mac II, which has a more-compatible 800K drive, and I've attempted
>to use A/UX's dd command to retrieve data from one of the "bad"
>disks. Unfortunately, it was only able to read 12 blocks before
>hitting a read error, and the "noerror" and "sync" modifiers that I
>hoped would let it skip past those errors were ineffective. (I should
>perhaps try it on another bad disk; it's possible that the disk in
>question was SO bad that it NEVER had more than 12 blocks of
>information on it. I never did a full restore from these disks, even
>when they were new.)
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>I've made images of 8 of the 16 "distribution" disks, which are plain-
>vanilla tar data. I will do the best I can with the other 8
>distribution disks, and the two "installation" disks, which are where
>the copy-protection trickery resides. (I seriously doubt that a 1984
>copy-protection scheme will have much of a chance against a 2008 full
>emulation environment.)
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>We'll keep everyone posted.
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Can you boot from the ProFile with UniPlus on it? If you can, it should be fairly easy to make an image of it (use a crossover/"null modem" cable, and dd the hard disk device to the serial port device; you could also try making a tarball of the entire filesystem and it might be possible to re-construct an image from it somehow). At least then there would be an image that could probably be run in an emulator, even if the floppies are bad.

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