TeleDisk: serial Disk transfer application

[DFinnigan]

TeleDisk makes it easy to transfer an entire floppy disk from a classic Mac to a newer computer over an ordinary RS-232 serial connection. The resulting disk image is immediately ready to use in the mini vMac emulator.

You can also select individual files to transfer, and optionally have them MacBinary-encoded to preserve timestamps and file type/creator codes. TeleDisk is compatible with the Hard Disk 20 and can transmit its entire contents. Visit the TeleDisk site to learn more about this new application for classic Macintosh.

 

[SomeGuy]

Unfortunate naming choice. There is already a disk archiving/copying tool for PCs called TeleDisk.

 

[Chuck(G)]

Dates all the way back to 1987, if my records are correct. Better to select an alternate name, don'tcha think?

 

[DFinnigan]

No, didn't know about that. Thanks for the heads-up. But as far as I'm aware, the name was unused in the Macintosh world.

This new application is a great time-saver. It can send an individual file or an entire disk image straight to your PC or Mac OS X desktop, cutting out the need for an emulator or any other middle-man to extract files.

 

[SomeGuy]

But as far as I'm aware, the name was unused in the Macintosh world.

Unfortunately, finding unique, meaningful names that don't clash with existing Google web search terms is one of the reasons why so many new projects and products have really weird sounding names these days.

TeleDisk is still a somewhat popular archival tool on the PC. Although most newer archival has moved toward ImageDisk or Kryoflux type devices, there are large number of existing archives in TeleDisk's .TD0 format. TeleDisk was commonly used for archiving CP/M style or non DOS FM/MFM encoded floppy disk using PCs. TeleDisk can handle several types of odd formatting that ImageDisk (a similar newer DOS based tool) can not, while not requiring special hardware like a Kryoflux.