Old WPs (was Re: [SunRescue] Rant on industry employment practices, was RE: 16MB)

[William Barnett-Lewis]

My pride and joy of old software (no kidding...) is my copy of WordStar 7.0D
on 10 3.5" floppies. I bought Virtual PC for my mac simply to be able to run
it and 2 dos based games. Still a sweet word cruncher. OTOH, I also own (and
have a soft spot for Mac Write Pro...).

I own way too many old word processors... hey, didn't I just see someone
talk about WP 4.2? I could use a copy...  ;'p

William



on 1/8/01 5:52 PM, rescue-request at sunhelp.org at rescue-request at sunhelp.org
wrote:

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> Message: 11
> Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 14:46:00 -0800 (PST)
> From: "Cyrus M. Reed" <reedc at cc.wwu.edu>
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Rant on industry employment practices, was RE: 16MB
> memory module for Voyager
> Reply-To: rescue at sunhelp.org
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> On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Reagen Ward wrote:
>> I've got WordPerfect 4.2 for DOS (Windows 3.0 was just a dream at the time)
>> floppies, 360k 5.25, sitting in a drive box.  Do those things degrade?  I
>> don't even have a 5.25 drive anymore.
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> 5.25" floppies tend to go bad after a while, but the 3.5" ones will last
> longer as long as their well cared for.  Of my personal disks, I think
> I've only seen about one or two 3.5" disks go bad - but I've seen many
> more than that die, which wasn't surprising considering the shape that
> most were in, like someone had run over them with a car, etc.
> 
> -Cyrus
>