From: dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [COFF] Old non-Unix software and manuals.
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2020 14:18:38 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: <20200308234812.GA20254@minnie.tuhs.org>
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On Mon, 9 Mar 2020, Warren Toomey wrote:
> I still have a 5¼" floppy drive, not sure I have a PC to plug it in to.
> Give me a few days and I'll let you know.
Don't forget that there were many "standards" for those things; a popular
utility was "Alien" for MS/DOS, which accessed the hardware. There was
also a version for ye olde Microbee called "Bee-Alien"; I made heavy use
of it :-)
-- Dave
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2020-03-08 20:22 peter
2020-03-08 20:30 ` krewat
2020-03-09 7:30 ` lars
2020-03-08 20:34 ` imp
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2020-03-08 22:32 ` wobblygong
2020-03-08 23:07 ` spedraja
2020-03-09 22:10 ` dave
2020-03-08 23:48 ` wkt
2020-03-09 3:18 ` dave [this message]
2020-03-09 3:39 ` imp
2020-03-09 4:18 ` dave
2020-03-20 12:55 ` tih
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