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Skriven 2008-05-10 16:38:00 av JOAN MACDIARMID (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av LAMAR SUDDUTH
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 Hi, Lamar,

 JM> supported/needed Windows NT or later, so
 JM> probably won't work with my W98 box. I need
 JM> to find a more "backward compatible" one. I
 JM> will find a use for this one I am sure.

 LS> If you've got a USB port try it like Dale said, can't do anything but
 LS> fail.

 OK sooner or later. But I presume it will want
 a driver, and even if this comes in the stick
 or on an included CD-Rom, W98 doesn't know how
 to ask for driver information, and I don't
 remember how to prompt it to look for such.

 JM> Glen Jamieson had a good idea (we chat by email
 JM> a lot) in that on a previous visit to these
 JM> corners he bought a memory card reader and
 JM> got my older computer to accept it so he
 JM> could show me all his vacation photos from
 JM> his European vacation trip. He didn't need
 JM> it at home, so left it with me. He suggested
 JM> I might be able to get the appropriate memory
 JM> card to use as a transfer "disk" since the
 JM> new laptop has a slot for multiple-type memory
 JM> cards.

 LS> Might be something there to tinker with.

 Well, at least he got a newer device to talk
 to my old computer.

 JM> I like my MSOffice Pro, all on floppies. Lots of them!
 JM> And I have various sharewares registered, on disks as
 JM> well, which I have needed to reinstall them occasionally.

 LS> Wow! MSOffice on floppies! I assume your new laptop doesn't have a
 LS> floppy drive like mine doesn't, don't think you can get an internal
 LS> anymore. Good luck with it if you get some way to load it on the
 LS> machine. Sorry but I have my doubts about it working unless is is

 It's Office Pro, suitable for Windows 3.1 or later
 (they advertised!). Granted, it cannot open later
 versions of Office-generated files. (GRR) But so far
 anything I have generated with it has been readable
 by any recipients. If I cannot read an important
 file, I message back to the sender to scram the
 unimportant styles and send the important stuff
 back as a .txt file so I know what I need to
 know and not his preferences as to colors and
 fonts and irrelevant pictures. This is sometimes
 not doable as my field is Chemistry, and sometimes
 the pictures of chemical schemes are necessary.
 But those can be sent as attachments.

 LS> DOS, then it might. I have a lot of old DOS stuff I still like and am
 LS> able to use in spite of what is said about DOS stuff working on Vista
 LS> (or XP for that matter). Had better luck with DOS than XP stuff.

 Ha! I never touched XP, ME, W2000 stuff. But now that
 is leaving me without some bridges to the past I need.

 JM> LS> HyperTerminal can be had for personal use at:
 JM> LS> http://tinyurl.com/5zera

 JM> Now that's useful, but can I just transfer the
 JM> HyperTerminal from the older computer to the new
 JM> one once I find a transfer bridge?

 LS> Wish you the best!

 Not that I am trying to be a pain, but the modern
 system is being a pain to me. Now I have the older
 computer fixed, so I am not so worried, but I
 really should get the functions I value onto the
 newest computer, just in case. But if I transfer
 all my BW stuff to the new computer (if I can)
 and save lots of it to CDs, what says five years
 in future doesn't trash it all again?

 Sometimes I just want to quit!

 Joan MacDiarmid
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