On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 09:16:22AM +1300, Terry Stewart via cctalk wrote: > Hi folks, > > On the weekend I rescued some old software. It gave me an excuse to get my > first micro out of its box and stretch its legs. > > Accounting packages hardly set the world alight but being a Dick Smith > release for the System 80, it does have its place in Australasian computer > history. Anyway, if anyone is interested, here is the URL. > > http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/blog/2018-01-12-rescuing-more-dick-smith-software.htm
A tip to clean floppies by soap and water - priceless. Despite me having no floppies worthy this much soap. I guess this could be tried for salvaging CDs, too - anyway, I have few misburned CDs living their second life as coasters (very stylish, blinkey, eco-friendly and stuff) and from time to time I give them a wash. So far (about ten-fifteen washes over few years), no signs of wash-related degradation, so perhaps I will (someday in a future) try it on some data CDs if they happen to be in bad condition on that particular date. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_r...@bigfoot.com **
