[sebhc] list archive and a specific question

[Dave Dunfield]

Hi Jim,

>The specific part of my question is this: I'm more interested in archiving 
>things than I am using them.  I've gleaned that Dwight Elvey has a small loader 
>program for generating a bootable image for an H8, but what I want is the 
>opposite -- something to dump the disk image.
>
>Dave Dunfield has written a cool utility to do this for northstar disk systems, 
>allowing transferring disk images either way and the communication protocol is 
>checksummed to ensure integrity.
>
>Does such a thing exist for the heathkit world?  The majority of my disk images 
>are for an H47 (8") system, which still works.

If you happen to be running CP/M on your H8 (which I believe is possible with an
option to map RAM into low memory), then I have recently written a generic CP/M
disk image backup/restore over the serial port which is similar to the ones I did
for NorthStar and Cromemco.

Unfortunately I have not yet found a disk controller for my H8, so I have not
developed any more H8 specific tools since my simulator and the H8T utility for
translating and transferring H8 tape images. (I did recently find an H10 paper
tape reader/punch, but somehow I don't think theres a big call for transferring
paper tape images).

Regards,
Dave
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