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On Thu, 18 May 2000, Jonathan Knowles wrote:

[snip]
> music that is on it. I have some backed up on floppies but it would be very
> time consuming to transfer it all to floppies - several hundred *.son files
> and MIDI files. 
]snip[
The answer is to invest in a CD-Recorder setup. Make CDs, they are only $2
each and would hold all your data easily.
If you don't want to buy a CD-Recorder, then you probably know a PC (or
Mac) owner who does. Now if you connect a serial cable to the Atari and PC
or Mac and run some terminal software (this is very basic stuff) then you
can transfer the data from the Atari to the PC or Mac. Then you simply
write the CD.
You can get an IDE drive very cheaply, around $100 new, buy Mario's IDE
interface for around $150 (or buy a SCSI interface and a SCSI CD-ROM
drive, this is perhaps easier to set up).
Now you can transfer your songs any old time you like, and besides, when
you write the CD, get several done! At a couple of bucks each there is
cheap safety in numbers.
This is the safest way to protect your valuable work.
Once you do this you will wonder why you ever did it the other way on
floppies. Goodness, I have not used floppies for ages!
Every way you think of it there is going to be some hassle factor and
money, so get real and sort out your problem, because - just think - what
would happen if tomorrow your HDD crashed and you lost everything, or you
had a fire in your studio, and you lost all your backups.
Well this does happen to some people, accidents or acts of God, and AFAIK
the programmers of Notator did not write this sort of imagined protection
(you know - it will never happen to me and you keep putting it off!) into
their code.
Advice? Just do it! That's happiness.
-- 
| Brian Becroft               | Tariland, Atari user group in New Zealand |
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| http://gem.win.co.nz/brian/ | http://tariland.win.co.nz/                |

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