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echo: aust_avtech
to: Niels Petersen
from: Theo Bee
date: 1996-12-26 00:41:08
subject: vintage micros

> year later his first crash almost broke him.
 > Backup? What's that he said.

 NP> And there are a lot of them today that ask the same question :-(
 
Indeed, who wants to know about all these shaky machines.
They all like to think they actually work reliably, contemplating
the alternative is bad for business.

 > 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.

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

Nah, no CPM, my disks are called flex...

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

 NP> 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...

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

Regrettably we had to ban it on the farm, too much glass around as it is.

Cheers,

Theo


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