Hi Mike.

15-Sep-03 21:22:32, Mike Luther wrote to All


 ML> Subject sorta says it all!

 ML> A friend was still keeping tons of correspondence on a Brother
 ML> Word Processor even up until a year or so, until the Windows Genie
 ML> showed up. You know, one of the ones with the old fashioned LCD
 ML> screen and so on, the integrated Brotherhood!  Grin.  You know,
 ML> the one which only stored whatever you wrote on floppy disks, I
 ML> think 3-1/2 inch stuff if my memory is correct

 ML> Well, the Great God of Fire settled on the building into which she
 ML> had taken refuge up in Idaho, not too long ago.  And with it .. to
 ML> wherever good Brothers go when consumed, went the Brother Word
 ML> Processor.  So now she is faced with a whole box full of floppy
 ML> disks with all the correspondence. The consumate backup, if you
 ML> will.  And as luck would have it, she needs .. for tax purposes,
 ML> copies of some of the letters that were all put together on this
 ML> ingenious all-in-one member of the Order of the Benevolent
 ML> Infiniture of Brothers

 ML> Sigh ..  What now?

 ML> Does anyone here know about operating system, word processing
 ML> format, any of this for this Order?  I've nver seen anything about
 ML> how the scribes stored this stuff.  Heck, I don't even know if I
 ML> can mount one of these diskettes on my OS/2 Warp MCP2 level
 ML> system, much less translate the dialect?   Heck, it might be an
 ML> evil byte of an Apple clone for all I know

 ML> Ideas?

Given the age of the hardware the disks are probably dos or CP/M format
See if you can mount the disks if not try to find a copy of PC-alien
(or some similar name)

file formsat is probably mostly ascii.

Set the read-only tab before taking them anywhere near a windows machine.

 -=> Bye <=-

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