>
 >BS>       I have an os2 box (that runs my Fido system) with HPFS
 >BS> formatted drives and the drives are failing.
 >
 > what'd you ever do concerning this, bob? did you get what you needed?
 > which method did you use? ;)


      About a week ago, the OS/2 boot disc self destructed, refusing to boot
(couldn't find PMSHELL.EXE).    Luckily I did have a valid current backup
of all my Fido stuff, including undelivered outbound traffic.

      So with the help of my son (and Charles Cruden - author of Internet Rex),
I reinstalled the complete Fido system on an OS/2 setup on one of my son's
VMWare servers, and (so far) looks like everything is flowing smoothly.

      As of this weekend I did change my nodelisting to remove the POTS line,
as the last call was received on it on March 04, 2012 - from an ip-capable
Fido node.  I don't operate any form of bbs, so see no need to maintain a
POTS line that's rarely, if ever, used.






                       .....Bob

--- GEcho/32 & IM 2.50