21 Jan
2018
21 Jan
'18
12:30 p.m.
On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 09:16:22AM +1300, Terry Stewart via cctalk wrote:
Hi folks,
On the weekend I rescued some old software. It gave me an excuse to get my
first micro out of its box and stretch its legs.
Accounting packages hardly set the world alight but being a Dick Smith
release for the System 80, it does have its place in Australasian computer
history. Anyway, if anyone is interested, here is the URL.
http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/blog/2018-01-12-rescuing-more-dick-smit…
A tip to clean floppies by soap and water - priceless. Despite me
having no floppies worthy this much soap. I guess this could be tried
for salvaging CDs, too - anyway, I have few misburned CDs living their
second life as coasters (very stylish, blinkey, eco-friendly and
stuff) and from time to time I give them a wash. So far (about
ten-fifteen washes over few years), no signs of wash-related
degradation, so perhaps I will (someday in a future) try it on some
data CDs if they happen to be in bad condition on that particular
date.
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Regards,
Tomasz Rola
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** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home **
** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... **
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