MacWrite? What's that?

[mikailborg]

It's quite trying to have to find 15-year-old install floppies so one can access archived stuff in an obsolete format. (And find a floppy drive while I'm at it.)

I should just thank Eris that the old software even runs. I need one of those Federation tricorders that can access 1000-year-old alien logs in 20-30 seconds of thinking.

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[nius.livejournal.com]

Every once in a while, the techsupport mailing list here at VT gets a "Hey, does anybody have a Dingbat & Co 10 milli-whatsit tape drive? The kind that came with a PDP back in like, 83? We've got some data on these tapes that a professor needs..."

Scary part is, usually someone has one, working, and gets the data back...

[mikailborg.livejournal.com]

I don't doubt that there's working punch-card and paper-tape readers carefully tucked away at Tech just in case. What would scare me is if someone came in with a set of machined Babbage gears and asks you to load payroll for 1872.

[corin-wolfkin.livejournal.com]

If you actually need it, I have a working copy of MacWrite II on my PowerBook, along with ClarisWorks 4. Hey, it's an LC040, with only 32 megs of ram. Has to be simple.

[mikailborg.livejournal.com]

Appreciated, but I found what I needed eventually. One day I will take the time to move all my diskettes to CD, but that hasn't happened yet.

[corin-wolfkin.livejournal.com]

Been tryin this too, but so far, so bad. Eventually, right?