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 @ 1:117/3001
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