From: Bryan Pope 
Cc: FidoClassic{at}videocam.net.au


All,

	Can anyone help this person?  I am forwarding this message from a fido 
mailing list gateway.  Any responses I will forward to the fidoclassic 
mailing list.

Cheers,

Bryan Pope


And thusly Mike Luther spake:
> 
> Subject sorta says it all!
> 
> A friend was still keeping tons of correspondence on a Brother Word Processor
> even up until a year or so, until the Windows Genie showed up. You know, one of
> the ones with the old fashioned LCD screen and so on, the integrated
> Brotherhood!  Grin.  You know, the one which only stored whatever you wrote on
> floppy disks, I think 3-1/2 inch stuff if my memory is correct.
> 
> Well, the Great God of Fire settled on the building into which she had taken
> refuge up in Idaho, not too long ago.  And with it .. to wherever good Brothers
> go when consumed, went the Brother Word Processor.  So now she is faced with a
> whole box full of floppy disks with all the correspondence. The consumate
> backup, if you will.  And as luck would have it, she needs .. for tax purposes,
> copies of some of the letters that were all put together on this ingenious
> all-in-one member of the Order of the Benevolent Infiniture of Brothers!
> 
> Sigh ..  What now?
> 
> Does anyone here know about operating system, word processing format, any of
> this for this Order?  I've nver seen anything about how the scribes stored this
> stuff.  Heck, I don't even know if I can mount one of these diskettes on my OS/2
> Warp MCP2 level system, much less translate the dialect?   Heck, it might be an
> evil byte of an Apple clone for all I know!
> 
> Ideas?
> 
> 
> --> Sleep well; OS/2's still awake! ;)
> 
> Mike {at} 1:117/3001
> 
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