> On May 4, 2019, at 12:54 AM, J. Peterson via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a stack of a few dozen CD-ROM disks with various files (old software,
> backup files, photos). I'm willing to pay a reasonable rate to have somebody
> read each of these in, convert them to .ISO files or some other reasonable
> format, and either make them downloadable or put them on a thumb drive.
>
> Does anybody know of such a service? I can find lots of services for
> converting audio CD's into MP3 files, but nothing that specifically handles
> data CD-ROMs.
>
> Any leads most appreciated. Please reply directly, as I don't often check
> this list.
>
> Thanks,
> jp
I thought a CD-ROM (data CD) *is* an ISO image. So I would expect all you need
to do is make an image copy of the disk. On Unix systems that's trivial, just
use the "dd" command to copy /dev/whatever to myfile.iso.
paul
