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* [TUHS] Floppy to modern files for Usenet maps
@ 2019-06-23 23:10 Mary Ann Horton Gmail
  2019-06-23 23:52 ` Arthur Krewat
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From: Mary Ann Horton Gmail @ 2019-06-23 23:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: tuhs

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Hunting around through my ancient stuff today, I ran across a 5.25" 
floppy drive labeled as having old Usenet maps. These may have 
historical interest.

First off, I don't recognize the handwriting on the disk. It's not mine. 
Does anyone recognize it? (pic attached)

I dug out my AT&T 6300 (XT clone) from the garage and booted it up. The 
floppy reads just fine. It has files with .MAP extension, which are 
ASCII Usenet maps from 1980 to 1984, and some .BBM files which are ASCII 
Usenet backbone maps up to 1987.

There is also a file whose extension is .GRF from 1983 which claims to 
be a graphical Usenet map.  Does anyone have any idea what GRF is or 
what this map might be? I recall Brian Reid having a plotter-based 
Usenet geographic map in 84 or 85.

I'd like to copy these files off for posterity. They read on DOS just 
fine. Is there a current best practice for copying off files? I would 
have guessed I'd need a to use the serial port, but my old PC has DOS 
2.11 (not much serial copying software on it) and I don't have anything 
live with a serial port anymore. And it might not help with the GRF file.

I took some photos of the screen with the earliest maps (the ones that 
fit on one screen.) So it's an option to type things in, at least for 
the early ASCII ones.

Thanks,

     Mary Ann



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2019-06-23 23:10 [TUHS] Floppy to modern files for Usenet maps Mary Ann Horton Gmail
2019-06-23 23:52 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-06-24  0:02   ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-06-24  0:35     ` Mary Ann Horton Gmail
2019-06-24  0:53       ` Arthur Krewat
2019-06-24  0:56         ` Larry McVoy
2019-06-24  1:12           ` Arthur Krewat
2019-06-24  1:31             ` William Pechter
2019-06-24  1:51               ` Arthur Krewat
2019-06-24  1:40         ` Bakul Shah
2019-06-24  3:20           ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-06-24  0:50     ` Arthur Krewat
2019-06-24 21:07     ` Michael Kjörling
2019-06-24 21:30       ` Steve Nickolas
2019-06-24 21:59         ` Gregg Levine
2019-06-23 23:57 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-06-24  0:40   ` Mary Ann Horton Gmail
2019-06-24  1:37     ` William Pechter
2019-06-24  3:17     ` Jason Stevens
2019-06-24  1:57   ` Steve Nickolas
2019-06-24  2:09     ` pechter
2019-06-24  0:03 ` Theodore Ts'o
2019-06-24  0:19 ` Seth Morabito
2019-06-24  0:33 ` Larry McVoy
2019-06-24  1:58   ` Steve Nickolas
2019-06-25  3:54 ` Jonathan Gevaryahu
2019-06-25 11:21   ` ckeck
2019-07-09 16:28 ` Mary Ann Horton Gmail
2019-07-09 16:53   ` KatolaZ
2019-07-09 17:12   ` Henry Bent
2019-07-09 17:25     ` Seth Morabito
2019-07-09 17:34       ` Henry Bent
2019-07-09 19:19         ` Henry Bent
2019-07-09 19:41           ` Richard Salz
2019-07-09 20:09           ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-07-09 20:58             ` Henry Bent
2019-07-09 20:54           ` Mary Ann Horton Gmail
2019-07-09 21:30             ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-07-09 21:35               ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-07-09 21:37             ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-07-09 21:46               ` Henry Bent
2019-07-09 22:02                 ` Henry Bent
2019-07-09 23:23                   ` Mary Ann Horton Gmail
2019-07-10  0:06                     ` Dan Cross
2019-07-10  0:26                       ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-07-10  0:38                         ` Dan Cross
2019-07-10  0:49                           ` Larry McVoy
2019-07-10  0:57                             ` Clem Cole
2019-07-10  1:26                               ` [TUHS] V0 B Compiler Warren Toomey
2019-07-10  1:29                                 ` Clem Cole
2019-07-10  1:32                                   ` [TUHS] Plot 10 Sources Clem Cole
2019-07-10  2:51                                     ` Charles Anthony
2019-07-10  3:00                                       ` Charles Anthony
2019-07-10  3:01                                       ` Clem Cole
2019-07-10 12:51                                     ` Nelson H. F. Beebe
2019-07-10 14:34                                       ` Clem cole
2019-07-10  1:02                             ` [TUHS] Floppy to modern files for Usenet maps Arthur Krewat
2019-07-10  1:19                               ` Larry McVoy
2019-07-10  1:34                                 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-07-10  0:28                       ` Mary Ann Horton Gmail
2019-07-09 22:01               ` Mary Ann Horton Gmail
2019-07-09 22:44                 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-07-09 23:14                   ` Mary Ann Horton Gmail
2019-07-10  0:24                     ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-07-10  1:13                       ` Mary Ann Horton Gmail
2019-07-09 17:33     ` Clem Cole
2019-07-15  3:21   ` [TUHS] Historical " Mary Ann Horton Gmail

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