[Blindapple] new member and reading archives

[Jayson Smith]

Hi,

Okay, a few more questions. Do you have a USB thumb drive you could fill 
with disk images, then mail to me? Do you have a copy of Textalker-GS? 
If so, I can definitely show you how to use your CFFA3000 to image 
standard format 5.25 and 3.5 disks. By standard format, for 3.5 disks, I 
mean 80 tracks, 1600 blocks. For 5.25 disks, I mean 35 tracks, 16 
sectors/8 ProDOS blocks per track, no funny business like copy 
protection, etc. Like I said, I don't know of a way to read 13-sector 
disks, but if you have some stuff on them, there's probably a way.

Let me know if this would work.

Thanks,

Jayson

On 7/4/2017 9:31 PM, Tom Brennan wrote:
> I am using da shell through a university but they've blocked zmodem, xmodem,
> ymodem, kermit, and ftp so I really can't upload anything into it.
>
> I have a //gs but somewhere I do have a super serial.  Also have a Laser 128ex.
> Have an old win98 machine and an xp machine but no internet for them.  Have a
> running dos machine but no internet for it.  I'm typing on a Mac right now.  I
> do have a cfa3000 but have never messed with it.
>
> kTom
>
>
> Tom Brennan  KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
> web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html
>
> On Tue, 4 Jul 2017, Jayson Smith wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I noticed through the message ID of your message that you're using Pine.
>> Are you using a dial-up shell account? If so, I could probably find a
>> modem somewhere (believe it or not, there are USB modems now) and you
>> could send disk images, archives, etc. directly to me, just as in the
>> olden days, lol!
>>
>> Before I continue, I want to say, please don't be offended by any of the
>> following questions, I truly don't know what type of equipment you have.
>> Do you have a Windows PC or just DOS? Do you have a CFFA3000 on any of
>> your Apples? If not, do any of your Apples have a Super Serial card or a
>> hardware compatible? As I said earlier, the IIc serial ports are
>> compatible, the IIgs ports are not.
>>
>> I would be glad to image disks you send me, but I really don't want to
>> have you send me your only copies of stuff through the mail, just in
>> case something happened to them. You might literally have the only
>> remaining copies of some of this stuff. Do you have enough blank/spare
>> floppy disks that you could make copies of stuff to send to me?
>>
>> I'm just trying to figure out a way to get this stuff archived and
>> preserved. The standard Apple 5.25 .dsk image is 140K, 35 tracks, 16
>> sectors. I don't know of a disk image format specific to DOS 3.2
>> 13-sector disks, or any other oddball disk format.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jayson
>>
>> On 7/4/2017 12:07 AM, Tom Brennan wrote:
>>> Jason, I have an odd situation.  I can't upload any stuff with the isp I'm
>>> using.  If you can read them we can talk about my directly sending you either
>>> 3.5 or 5.25 disks of programs themselves.  Have v3.0 and 3.1 of DOS as well as
>>> several versions of prodos and the gsos Davex version of DOS that APH did.  Also
>>> have pascal, graforth, pilot, cp/m, and several other operating systems for the
>>> Apple.  Even have a version of logo I modified to sort of talk although that's
>>> obviously kind of silly.  Got a lot of that stuff boxed up but can probably dig
>>> it out.
>>>
>>> If anyone's got it, I'm looking for the version of wlrd.talk that was written
>>> for the pc.  Have I think v3.1 for the Apple but would really like to have the
>>> pc version.  Used to have it but it seems to have gotten lost.
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>
>>>
>>> Tom Brennan  KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
>>> web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html
>>>
>>> On Mon, 3 Jul 2017, Jayson Smith wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I would love, love, love to get my hands on images of software you have,
>>>> as you probably have some treasures. I hope this can happen somehow,
>>>> sometime.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Jayson
>>>>
>>>> On 7/3/2017 4:02 PM, Tom Brennan wrote:
>>>>> Welcome to the list, Jeff.  I fondly remember the magazine and still have
>>>>> several of its disks along with lots of programs that came from it.  Still run
>>>>> that stuff on my Apple and Laser computers.
>>>>>
>>>>> Tom
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Tom Brennan  KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
>>>>> web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, 3 Jul 2017, Jeff Weiss wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>> My name is Jeff Weiss and I just joined the blind apple list.
>>>>>> I used to publish a disk magazine for blind Apple users originally called
>>>>>> Apple Talk.
>>>>>> Due to a problem with licensing Dos for the magazine, I later changed the name to
>>>>>> A-Talk.
>>>>>> First, how do I read the archives?  I downloaded some files that end with .gz.  I guess this is some type of zip file, but where can I get the program to unzip the files?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My next question is how do most of you boot your apple disks on the pc?  I have started launching mine with batch files, which makes the process much easier than typing out the entire launch commands.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Also, I think Jason said that there are additional disk images available.  Are they available for download, or directly from Jason?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That's enough for now, and I look forward to comments from other list members.
>>>>>> Jeff Weiss
>>>>>>
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