Even old accounting software needs love and rescuing from oblivion

[Tomasz Rola]

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-smith-software.htm

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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