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echo: aust_avtech
to: Theo Bee
from: Niels Petersen
date: 1996-11-17 16:06:08
subject: vintage micros

Hi Theo

 > My insurance agent went computer when the XT became available, about a
 > year later his first crash almost broke him.
 > Backup? What's that he said.

And there are a lot of them today that ask the same question :-(

 > Used it last year to extract some old assembler files from flop.
 > According to the legends there are some programs for the IBM that can
 > read these old files, must have a look.

I've seen one somewhere to run CPM code. Dunno where though...


Re WYSE
 > I tossed a yeah beaut colour monitor, however I since traded a wyse
 > terminal
 > in, all yours if you need another one:-)

I've got too much junk as it is.

 >  NP> Any advice (other than binning it) would be appreciated.
 >  NP> Niels Petersen

 > They make great targets, hit the tube side on...

In a suburban back yard ?  But I can imagine :-)

Cheers
Niels Petersen

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