Which model is/was it?
There are several different formats that were used, some of which can be
read by some MS-DOS machines. (a little harder with Windoze)
And thusly Mike Luther spake:
>
> Subject sorta says it all!
no,
more FACTUAL detail would help.
> 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.
Is "Windows Genie" the model name for her machine?
> 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!
Is
THAT the model name? or just more flowery language to wade through
> 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?
Have you TRIED??
> Heck, it might be an
> evil byte of an Apple clone for all I know!
doubtful, but hard to tell with no
information
> Ideas?
> --> Sleep well; OS/2's still awake! ;)
same shut-down problems as
Windoze98?