Old Software was Re: So ORIGINS is no longer in continuity with YANKEE WHITE.

shawn wrote:

On Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:45:46 -0500, Nyssa <Nyssa@LogicalInsight.net>
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BTR1701 wrote:
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On Nov 18, 2024 at 1:40:02 PM PST, "Nyssa" <Nyssa@LogicalInsight.net>
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BTR1701 wrote:
 

 On Nov 18, 2024 at 1:07:02 PM PST, "Nyssa" <Nyssa@LogicalInsight.net>
 wrote:
 

 

 Welcome back! Haven't heard from you in a long while. I had despaired
 that you were among the many who have given up on Usenet lately.

 
Thanks for the re-welcome!

 
Indeed, welcome back
 

Multiple computer hardware and a couple of software problems have
caused cascading headaches since mid-August. Even now, I'm stuck using
a laptop with a wonky "e" key just to check email and Usenet while
I attempt to trace down the hardware problems on TWO desktops that
decided to turn ornery one after another. :/

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As for older software, I've got a full tower desktop I built
back in the mid-1990s (with an MMX processor) that I keep
running with MS-DOS and Win3.1 in order to access my financial
software, the word processor AmiPro, and PatternMaker design
software. Plus an older version of CorelDraw I did a lot of work
on.
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I used to have a side gig for well over a decade doing counted
thread embroidery designs that I published and/or sold for
publication in hobby magazines. All of my work archives for
those are in AmiPro, PatternMaker, and CorelDraw5. Two of the
three are no longer published (AmiPro was first purchased by
Lotus who did a good job maintaining it, but later sold it
along with Lotus123 to IBM who rewrote them (WordPro) then
abandoned it all; PatternMaker was published by a one-programmer
shop and was abandoned after version 4). I still use AmiPro for
my knitting pattern translations (from German and charts)
for my personal use. Best danged word processor EVAH!
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I'll get back to trying to revive at least one of the newer
desktops and getting the data transfered once I can catch up
on a list of other to-dos that need doing before winter weather
gets here.
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Meanwhile I can at least still post to Usenet and deal with
email with this stoopid HP laptop with its wonky "e" key and
a capslock key that's too close to the "a" key that I keep hitting
my mistake. :/
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Look on the bright side with your engraving software; if your
older Mac hadn't bit the dust, you wouldn't have grabbed a newer
version of the software before they took it off the market. At
least you've stil got *something* that will get the job done for
now.
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Nyssa, who has gobs of old software that works just fine provided
you can find a working copy of the right OS to run it AND a floppy
drive to load it onto the hard drive

 
 
That's why I love sites like these that keep old versions of software
available for anyone to download.
 
https://archive.org/details/vintagesoftware
 
http://www.oldversion.com/

Oooooooo! Thanks for the pointer!

I;ve been finding a lot of my old media (both flavors of floppy
and data CDs) are suffering from bit rot. It's good to know
there's a place that might have something that I "own" but
is no longer readable.

Nyssa, who likes lots of old software but *really* dislikes this
laptop's "new style" keyboard