[cctalk] Re: Valuable floppy archiving: seeking current best practice

Tom, If you would like some known good disks to test with, I'd be glad to format a few 8 inch disks for you to use as test disks. Just email me and we can figure it out. Chuck sent me a few disks when I was first setting up my 8 inch drives a few years back and that was invaluable. I'd be gl

[cctalk] Re: Valuable floppy archiving: seeking current best practice

Sounds like a fun project and thank you for taking that on. The only guide I know of is this one , which is a good starting point. Other than the obvious cleaning tips. I think one suggestion often missed is to use your ears. You can really hear when a disk

[cctalk] Re: request for 5.25 floppies

Hey Steve! I have quite a few DSDD 5.25" disks in inventory right now. I bought a bunch from a military surplus store online a few years back and those disks have proven to be very reliable. I'd be glad to make any disk that you need. I do quite a bit of disk archiving and I have quite a few

[cctalk] Re: 5 1/4" and 3.5" disk duplication machines

I definitely do. I rebuilt a Trace ST8000 last year and got it up and running. I also built a 5.25" duplicator with 12 drives a few months back. I'd love to find a commercial 5.25" duplicator. Travis On Sat, Mar 9, 2024 at 2:55 PM Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote: > Does anyone have interest

[cctalk] Re: Overland Data Depot4 application

I have a Qualstar 3412 that I've used with Depot4. I last used this on a 386 running DOS 6.22, a Trantor SCSI card and SCSIWorks! as the ASPI driver. Travis On Thu, Feb 8, 2024 at 12:14 AM Nico de Jong via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > >> Based on the comment in a message poste

[cctalk] Re: FTGH: (3) Qualstar 1260 9 track tape drives pertec interface

I'm a bit late to the ballgame, but I use Depot 4 - which is available for download from Curious Marc. https://www.curiousmarc.com/computing/overland-tape-drive On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 1:00 PM Anders Nelson via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Yup, right there in /doc. > -- > Anders Nels

[cctalk] Re: Looking for Tape Control Software TFORMAT for Irwin 110/125 Floppy Tape Drives

Several versions of EZTape are on Minus as well. https://www.minuszerodegrees.net/software/software.htm There is a TFORMAT.COM in the 1.13 version. > > Hello, > > I have a number of DC1000 tape cartridges, with and without relevant data > on them. > I have 2 questions: > > 1. Has anybody the IR

[cctalk] Re: Source for NEW (unused) punch tape

I have a few saved searches on eBay. I think these are not a bad price. https://www.ebay.com/itm/392994905002 My GNT4601 punches the guide holes and uses unperforated tape too. On Thu, Jun 8, 2023 at 10:34 AM William Sudbrink via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > The punch (on an ASR33

Re: ISO: Canon Scanner Driver

I was able to download it from here. https://www.canon-europe.com/support/products/document-scanners/digital-microfilm/ms300ii.html?type=download&softwaredetailid=tcm:13-1364408&os=all&language=en On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 1:37 PM Jim Carpenter via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On Sun,