Mia Magnusson wrote: "This isn't any critique of the ZoomFloppy, I'm just suprised that all those C64/VIC20/C128/Plus/4/C16 people buy a product with an IEEE port which they probably will never use." I ran a 64 BBS in the day with 2 SFD's, an 8250 and a few 1571's. I backed up everything to SFD's when this was my main system. In the beginning of the archive process (late 90's) I had a 386 and a butchered Xm1541 parallel cable to start making disk images of my library of stuff. But there wasn't any IEEE solution. I had been backing things up through a BUSCARD to 1571/81 on c64 -> 386. I bought a ZF right at the beginning. I mounted it on a block of wood and kicked the archive process on again. I have about 800 disks. It was awesome. A power shell script (with audible alert for disk change), ZF and the drives I got through everything in a few weeks. I’m lucky in Canada, Jim’s stuff gets through pretty easy. I’ve bought so much stuff from Europe and tried every trick to get it here cheaper – somehow it almost feels like you pay double. I lived in Amsterdam for a while and was shuttling things back and forth for friends in luggage. I almost took an 8250 with me in carryon back to Canada. The deal fell through but I was really wondering what I would tell customs when showing up with the Dual Drive monster. Maybe Jim needs a Euro/Scandinavian “vacation” 😊 and a shipping container. Hehe. Wolfgang Bochar wbochar.comReceived on 2018-05-11 19:00:32
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