Hi Jaqui
At the moment she is
using Brenda Paternoster's bookmark pattern and is way past her 50th
variation - and that's all on the same size grid so she isn't doing
the same
variation with thick and thin thread and calling it two. And Brenda
will now
know who I'm talking about.
She's going a rate of knots - last time I spoke to her, about 2-3 weeks
ago it was only 40 something!
Anyway, she has a gadget called a Phillips Video Writer which is a word
processor and printer all in one. She is able to save to floppy, but
although
we haven't tried that yet I suspect that a modern PC isn't going to be
able
to read the data from said floppy disks.
I've been Googling Philips Video Writer.
It seems to be a thermal ribbon, whatever that is/was.
Have you tried to re-wind the ribbon? It might be a case of
semi-destructively prising the casing apart, rotating the spindle or
whatever manually and then sticking the cartridge back together with
glue or sticky tape.
Anyway, the person most likely to know what the operating system of the
VideoWriter was is someone called Rex Battenberg,
http://www.dieterkoenig.at/ccc/po/s_po_rexbattenberge.htm
bottom quarter of the page
or same article at
http://www.classic-consoles-center.at/interviews/interview-with-rex-
battenberg
but neither of them have a contact for the guy.
Have you tried putting one of the floppies into your PC?
Brenda in Allhallows, Kent
http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/index.html
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