On Fri, 28 Jul 2000 03:47:52 -0400 (EDT), Thomas Mueller wrote:
>> http://www.geocities.com/Eureka/Plaza/4918/mail.html
> I guess I need to look at that Web page to see why I was never able to make
> SMTPOP work on the SMTP part. But I think I prefer NetMail DOS over the
> cryptic naming/numbering of POP3 download files by SMTPOP or Insight.
Note: To use SMTPOP.EXE you have to "glue" the headers. The headers
need to be created in the same format and use the same symbols as used
by the "Barebone DOS email system". You can easily write a batch file
to glue the headers for you. I would suggest you learn to use Barebones
before attempting to use SMTPOP.EXE as a "stand-alone".
I also prefer the ordered sequential numbering scheme of message files
used with NetMail DOS.
>> 360K floppies are still available at Radio Shack. I don't know if they
> still make them, or whether they are just selling old over-stocked
> merchandise. I haven't seen any 1.2 MB floppies for sale except at flea
> markets where you can still obtain them in unopened boxes. You can get
> them cheap. The same goes for 720K floppies. As for the floppy drives,
> you can buy them used at flea markets at prices ranging from one dollar to
> eight dollars each. 720K floppy drives are very hard to find, but if you
> find any, you can usually get them very cheap provided the vendor is unaware
> that 720K floppy drives are highly sought-after items.
> Sam Heywood
> Sam,
> I would have thought 1.2 MB floppies would be more available than 360K floppies,
> but I haven't looked recently.
This is not the case. The 1.2 MB floppies were not in vogue for as long as
the 360K floppies, and not as many machines were produced supplied with 1.2
MB floppy drives.
Why are 720K floppy drives highly sought-after?
Because you need to have a 720 floppy drive in order to make a diskcopy
of a 720 floppy. The DISKCOPY command will not work right unless you are
working with identical media and perfectly compatible drives. Most of the
original software disks from some of the best good vintage years was
supplied on 720 floppies.
> How many computers are there currently that use 720K drives but can't use
> 1.44 MB drives, and how much would such a dinosaur be worth?
Don't know. Such dinosaurs are highly prized among the preservationists
of vintage software. For this reason you seldom find them for sale in
flea markets. These kinds of PC's are "keepers". A person who really
knows what a prize he has will not sell it cheap. There are of course
some people who don't know the true value of some items they are trying
to get rid of, and they don't know the people who are willing to pay a
good price for what they are wanting to sell. This is all a matter of
what you know and whom you know among potential buyers and sellers.
> Computer stores
> don't like 720K drives because of the danger of mistaking for a 1.44 MB drive
> and installing in a computer that would use the 1.44 MB drive. Then the
> technician has to undo the mistake at no charge to the customer. That once
> happened to me as the customer. When I described the symptoms, able to read
> 720K diskettes but not 1.44 MB diskettes, the technician knew immediately what
> he did wrong, and came to my home to rectify the error at no charge. That same
> time on a regular service run could have earned upward of $200.
Computer stores like to deal primarily in the latest and greatest. There is
much more money in it for them.
All the best,
Sam Heywood
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