Help for a Brother! (fwd) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

16 Sep 2003

I am not sure it's the correct version but I have a converter for "Brother
Typewriter" disks to Word format
As I am not allowed to make large attachments here, I've put it on the web.
www.e2t.be/brother

I hope it helps you...

Luc

-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: cctalk-admin(a)classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctalk-admin@classiccmp.org]Namens Bryan Pope
Verzonden: dinsdag 16 september 2003 13:54
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Onderwerp: Help for a Brother! (fwd)

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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