Date   : Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:24:53 +0100
From   : francis@... (Francis Devereux)
Subject: Master series welcome (5.25") disks

On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 08:49:44AM -0500, Jules Richardson wrote:
> neil f wrote:
> >> Figured I better ask before giving one away that might be 
> >> "special" in some way!
> > 
> > Give him a blue one - then you're bound to still have a
> > 'special' one ;-)
> 
> :-)
> 
> I've never used a welcome disk in my life, you see, so I'm not familiar with 
> the contents at all. Thought I'd ask just in case green labels (or blue) 
> signified an earlier (and presumably buggy) release, or a release tailored in 
> some way for a Master 512 / Turbo / Scientific / AIV or something rather than 
> a 'stock' 128.

There was definitely more than one version of the M128 welcome disc.  The 
"real" physical welcome disc that I had has older versions of some programs
on it than the disc image that I downloaded recently, for example my disc
has CopyFiles 2.41 and the disc image I downloaded has 2.54.

> That's almost certainly not the case (and someone just had a bad day and ran 
> out of the right ink ;) but stranger things have happened...
> 
> I suppose I'll chuck 'em in the archival system and see if they're identical 
> at the raw level or not.

I would be interested in the disc images if you do.  I think that the disc
came as 40 track ADFS but had a utility on it that allowed you to convert
it to 80 track, and I'd like to see what it looks like in it's original 40-track
form.

Francis