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From: dsmall@well.UUCP (David Small)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Blitz copy cable and utility
Message-ID: <15093@well.UUCP>
Date: 19 Dec 89 04:14:52 GMT
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Reply-To: dsmall@well.UUCP (David Small)
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The basenote asks where to get the Blitz cable docs (which are PD, I think.)

They are available on both the GEnie and CIS networks, and probably
interminable BBS's. They're a bit long to uuencode and post here, though.

	Also, an outfit in Las Vegas, Nevada is selling the complete unit
for a reasonable price. There are starting to be ads for it in mags like
ST-World and ST-Informer. In looking, I couldn't find one, but my office
is in a Christmas Mess. It's there alright.

	Software First, a little north of Bay Area, reports that there is
nothing in their store that it cannot copy. That's not surprising, given
that's it's just passing on pulses from drive to drive without analyzing them.
I know people who mass-format disks with this utility, although I personally
do not, as it takes 18 sec/side. I'm thoroughly impressed with it -- and that
it doesn't make third and later generation copies, which to me legitimizes
it as a backup tool. Software First reports no other copy program can 
copy everything they have, including Copy II ST, etc, and even the Option
Board, which is extremely powerful.

	So, if you know someone on GEnie or CIS ...

	-- thanks, Dave / Gadgets