<> > What I'm basically interested in right now is how I can revive my old > collection of software, most importantly Text87, which is by far the > most expensive piece of my software collection. It just doesn't seem to > like the QPC. Any hints on that, maybe?
This is one of the things I cant help with, as Im not a Text87 user. However, help is on its way, as this is a question that has been asked here a number of times before and, as far as Im aware, has been largely resolved. As its something thats been on my mind recently, there is one piece of advice I have for someone in your situation: While you have your QL up and running, if you havent already done so, backup any old microdrives and floppies to hard disk and CD/DVD as soon as possible! Per, backing up and securing all that I could find was one of the first things I did when browsing through the stuff found. I must admit that I was amazed how many of the disks were still perfectly readable after more than 10 years of gathering dust on the shelf (Only the cheaper disks found were unreadable, .fortunately I had all my important back-ups on high-quality disks. I have serious doubts whether modern, CD-ROM based systems could keep the data for so long. I would never use CDs or DVDs for long-term storage of important data. Tobias _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
