Date   : Tue, 22 Aug 1989 21:02:21 -0500
From   : mknox@emx.utexas.edu (Margaret H. Knox)
Subject: Trashed CP/M diskette

I had to read the letter twice to get it all straight (I think).  And
I believe I know what happened to your diskette.

As I interpret things, you had a Model-II with a copy of ATON CP/M
booted, and tried to run a program called TRS2CPM.  That is a Pickles&
Trout program, which assumes certain things about the system ... no
telling *WHAT* it did to any diskette it found lurking around.

ATON was (is?) a company that sold CP/M for the Model-II, etc.
They made a very TECHNICALLY good product (extremely fast, and
found several hardware features in the machines that even TANDY
didn't know were there).  Their documentation and general quality
control were nowhere near the level of Pickles&Trout, however, and
as a result they never sold more than a small fraction of what
P&T did.

You're right, they all used a number of different disk formats
(standard??? what's that?).  P&T got more storage from a diskette,
but will not read Lifeboat or ATON diskettes (except in the common
SSSD interchange CP/M standard).  It ALSO sounds like you may
have a CORVUS hard disk.  ***BIG PROBLEM***   I could probably
salvage your ATON disk from some of the stuff I have around
TriSoft  (and we can certainly supply replacement P&T disks
and manuals), but we have NOTHING for the CORVUS hard disks.

ATON International *may* still be around, although I do not have
their address handy.  Maybe someone else can help with that.