gpaJeb Posted February 20, 2020 Share Posted February 20, 2020 WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO THIS COR COMP PRODUCT? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted February 20, 2020 Share Posted February 20, 2020 This cartridge was released and it worked reasonably well, but PC Transfer was released on disk at about the same time, and the disk program was less expensive (and more capable) than the cartridge, so it didn't sell very well. I bought one from Tenex BITD and used it off and on for years to transfer text files. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atrax27407 Posted February 20, 2020 Share Posted February 20, 2020 PC-TRANSFER is a lot more flexible and will do much more than text transfer. Also, despite what the docs claim are the limitations, it will process 720K disks. I have been using it for years. You do need a DSDD disk controller to use the a PC-formatted disk above 360K, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gpaJeb Posted February 21, 2020 Author Share Posted February 21, 2020 Can one get the PC-TRANSER program ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atrax27407 Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 Here it is: the program is archived with ARCHIVER 3.03 with a TIFILES header PCTRANS PC-TRANSDOCS.pdf 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Vorticon Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 Does the program support the standard TI disk controller? The docs make no mention of it. I can see how this would have been a very useful program in its day. One could be working on a report at work and then come home and continue the project on the TI. Same with spreadsheet data... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atrax27407 Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 I think (not sure) that it will work with a TI Disk controller but you are limited to a 360K-formatted PC disk. With a DSDD controller (i.e. BWG, CorComp) you can use a 720K-formatted PC disk. I use 3.5" disks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Lee Stewart Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 3 hours ago, Vorticon said: Does the program support the standard TI disk controller? The docs make no mention of it. I can see how this would have been a very useful program in its day. One could be working on a report at work and then come home and continue the project on the TI. Same with spreadsheet data... I used PC Transfer back in the mid to late 1980s with a CorComp controller to transfer the text of the TI Forth Manual from TI-Writer disks (90KiB disks supplied by the MANNERS TI user group) to DSDD PC disks in order to convert to WordPerfect format to, eventually, publish a cleaned-up, corrected document. That project languished (with some work here and there) until after I retired in 2009. I then picked it back up in earnest and, using Open Office Org Writer, published my edited version as a PDF in 2013 (see the development resources thread to download it). I owe it all to PC Transfer for making the project possible! ...lee 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 it does not support the TI controller as it can not do DSDD (360k) it can only do DSSD (180k) and you'll be hard pressed to find a pc disk formatted in that size.. Greg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Vorticon Posted February 22, 2020 Share Posted February 22, 2020 5 hours ago, arcadeshopper said: it does not support the TI controller as it can not do DSDD (360k) it can only do DSSD (180k) and you'll be hard pressed to find a pc disk formatted in that size.. Greg Well I suppose it's all moot now with HDX and TIDir Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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