Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-11-03 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk



On 10/31/18 6:13 AM, Adam Sampson via cctalk wrote:
> Al Kossow via cctalk  writes:
> 
>> On 10/29/18 12:54 PM, geneb wrote:
>>> https://archive.org/details/walnutcreekcdrom
>> It sure would be nice if you could get a comma separated list of
>> metadata instead of a bunch of pretty pictures
> 
> It's fairly well hidden, but you can indeed do that:
> 
> https://archive.org/advancedsearch.php?q=collection%3Awalnutcreekcdrom[]=identifier=csv

Most of the entries have no date metadata, so here is a sorted list extracting 
the dates from the identifier field.
At least you can get an rough idea of what is there, and where there are 
duplicates.

??  
ADA_-_The_International_Language_for_Software_Engineers_Walnut_Creek_February
??  
ADA_-_The_International_Language_for_Software_Engineers_Walnut_Creek_June_199
??  
ADA_-_The_International_Language_for_Software_Engineers_Walnut_Creek_March_19
??  
ADA_-_The_International_Language_for_Software_Engineers_Walnut_Creek_November
??  
ADA_-_The_International_Language_for_Software_Engineers_Walnut_Creek_Septembe
??  Bootable_Slackware_4.0_2
??  Garbo
??  LibrisBritannia
??  MS-DOS_Archives_Volume_One_Walnut_Creek

198812  
NOAA_Aeronautical_Data_Sampler_CD-ROM_Next_Generation_Cartography_December_1988

1992Desktop_Library_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_1992
199201  X11R5_GNU_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_January_1992
199203  CDROM_March92
199203  Source_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_March_1992
199203  Source_Code_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_March_1992
199204  MS_Windows_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_April_1992
199205  OS2_Archive_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_May_1992
199206  SIMTEL_0692
199207  Cica_July92
199208  GIFs_Galore_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_August_1992
199208  GifsGalore_Aug92
199209  Simtel20_Sept92
199211  CICA_MS_Windows_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_November_1992
199211  Hobbes_OS2_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_November_1992
199212  cdrom-simtel20msdosarchivedecember1992walnutcr
199212  simtel1292_SIMTEL_1292_Walnut_Creek
199212  X11R5_GNU_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_December_1992

199303  Libris_Britannia_Walnut_Creek_March_1993
199306  Aminet_CD-ROM_for_the_Commodore_Amiga_Computer_Walnut_Creek_June_1993
199306  Hobbes_OS2_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_June_1993
199306  La_Coleccion_Walnut_Creek_Junio_1993
199308  cdrom-cicamicrosoftwindows0893
199310  GIFs_Galore_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_October_1993
199310  Hobbes_OS2_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_October_1993
199312  CICA_MS_Windows_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_December_1993
199312  CICA_Shareware_for_Windows_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_December_1993
199312  GEMini_Atari_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_December_1993

199401  C_Users_Group_Library_Walnut_Creek_January_1994
199401  FreeBSD_CD-ROM_Version_2.0_Walnut_Creek_January_1994
199402  
Aminet_CD-ROM_For_the_Commodore_Amiga_Computer_Walnut_Creek_February_1994
199402  Clip-Art_Cornucopeia_CD-ROM_February_1994
199402  Fractal_Frenzy_Walnut_Creek_Japanese_February_1994
199402  Hobbes_OS2_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_February_1994
199403  
ADA_The_International_Language_for_Software_Engineers_Walnut_Creek_March_1994
199403  Aminet_CD-ROM_For_the_Commodore_Amiga_Walnut_Creek_March_1994
199403  Source_Code_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_March_1994
199403  Tax_Info_1993_Walnut_Creek_March_1994
199404  CICA_Shareware_for_Windows_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_April_1994
199405  Sentimental_Wings_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_May_1994
199405  Sys_V_r4_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_May_1994
199406  4.4_BSD_Lite_Export_Walnut_Creek_June_1994
199407  
ADA_The_International_Language_for_Software_Engineers_Walnut_Creek_July_1994
199407  Kirks_Comm_Disc_Walnut_Creek_July_1994
199407  Visions_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_July_1994
199407  X11R6_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_July_1994
199408  C_Users_Group_Library_Walnut_Creek_August_1994
199408  CDROM_of_CDROMs_Walnut_Creek_August_1994
199408  Hobbes_OS2_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_August_1994
199408  Toolkit_for_Linux_Walnut_Creek_August_1994
199409  CICA_Shareware_for_Windows_Walnut_Creek_September_1994
199409  Simtel_MSDOS_1994-09
199409  Welcome_to_Africa_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_September_1994
199411  cdrom-1994-11-walnutcreek-cpm
199411  CPM_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_November_1994
199411  DOOM_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_November_1994
199411  La_Coleccion_Walnut_Creek_Noviembre_1994
199411  Plug_and_Play_Linux_Walnut_Creek_November_1994
199411  Ready_to_Run_Hobbes_OS2_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_November_1994

1995cdrom-x11r610395
199501  Music_Workshop_Walnut_Creek_January_1995
199501  Simtel_MSDOS_Walnut_Creek_CD-ROM_January_1995
199501  Walnut_Creek_Sampler_44_CDROMs_to_Try_Walnut_Creek_January_1995
199502  
CICA_Ultimate_Collection_of_Shareware_for_Windows_Walnut_Creek_February_1995
199503  Hobbes_OS2_Archived_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_March_1995
199503  Slackware_Ready_to_Run_Linux_Walnut_Creek_March_1995
199504  Best_of_Walnut_Creek_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_April_1995
199504  Clips_for_QuickTime_Walnut_Creek_April_1995
199504  Giga_Games_2_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_April_1995
199504  Raytrace_The_Official_POV-RAY_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_April_1995
199504  X11R6_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_April_1995
199505  Simtel_MSDOS_1995-05

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-11-02 Thread geneb via cctalk

On Fri, 2 Nov 2018, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:


On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 05:01:18AM -0700, geneb via cctalk wrote:


Take it up with the Internet Archive.  Not my circus, not my monkey.



I'm sorry for barking up the wrong tree :) I should know better than
to shoot at the messenger.


No worries, I'm good at ducking. ;)

g.

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Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-11-02 Thread Pontus Pihlgren via cctalk
On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 05:01:18AM -0700, geneb via cctalk wrote:
> 
> Take it up with the Internet Archive.  Not my circus, not my monkey.
> 

I'm sorry for barking up the wrong tree :) I should know better than
to shoot at the messenger.

Cheers,
Pontus.


Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-10-31 Thread Adam Sampson via cctalk
Al Kossow via cctalk  writes:

> On 10/29/18 12:54 PM, geneb wrote:
>> https://archive.org/details/walnutcreekcdrom
> It sure would be nice if you could get a comma separated list of
> metadata instead of a bunch of pretty pictures

It's fairly well hidden, but you can indeed do that:

https://archive.org/advancedsearch.php?q=collection%3Awalnutcreekcdrom[]=identifier=csv

There's some documentation here: .
The "advanced search" form is handy for setting up queries like the above.

The Python internetarchive module comes with a command-line tool "ia"
which can drive much of archive.org's interface programmatically; I use
it for searching and batch uploads/downloads rather than the web
interface.

Cheers,

-- 
Adam Sampson  


Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-10-31 Thread Bill Degnan via cctalk
>
>
> >>
> >
> > It's very time consuming to browse through that though.
> >
> > It would be nice if you could make the service more
> > accessible. A csv export of a table including metadata for
> > each entry shouldn't be so hard. It would probably save you
> > some bandwith as well.
>
> Take it up with the Internet Archive.  Not my circus, not my monkey.
>
> g.
>
>
For the record you're saying that you have a circus and a monkey but
they're not to be used for such things, or that the Inernet Archive uses
circus monkeys. Because I think that's great, once the circus no longer
needs them that they have a home doing meaningful work.


Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-10-31 Thread geneb via cctalk

On Wed, 31 Oct 2018, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:


On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 01:53:18PM -0700, geneb via cctalk wrote:

On Mon, 29 Oct 2018, Al Kossow wrote:




On 10/29/18 12:54 PM, geneb wrote:


Here's the Walnut Creek collection: https://archive.org/details/walnutcreekcdrom


It sure would be nice if you could get a comma separated list of metadata 
instead of
a bunch of pretty pictures

THAT is where IA is a colossal FAIL

You realize that you can click a button and get a text list of those
"pretty pictures", right?  Click the "Show Details" checkbox and
you'll get a block of text that describes each one.



It's very time consuming to browse through that though.

It would be nice if you could make the service more
accessible. A csv export of a table including metadata for
each entry shouldn't be so hard. It would probably save you
some bandwith as well.


Take it up with the Internet Archive.  Not my circus, not my monkey.

g.

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Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-10-31 Thread Pontus Pihlgren via cctalk
On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 01:53:18PM -0700, geneb via cctalk wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Oct 2018, Al Kossow wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> >On 10/29/18 12:54 PM, geneb wrote:
> >
> >>Here's the Walnut Creek collection: 
> >>https://archive.org/details/walnutcreekcdrom
> >
> >It sure would be nice if you could get a comma separated list of metadata 
> >instead of
> >a bunch of pretty pictures
> >
> >THAT is where IA is a colossal FAIL
> You realize that you can click a button and get a text list of those
> "pretty pictures", right?  Click the "Show Details" checkbox and
> you'll get a block of text that describes each one.
> 

It's very time consuming to browse through that though.

It would be nice if you could make the service more 
accessible. A csv export of a table including metadata for 
each entry shouldn't be so hard. It would probably save you 
some bandwith as well.

/P


Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-10-30 Thread Bill Degnan via cctalk
On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 11:09 AM geneb via cctalk 
wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Oct 2018, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote:
>
> > I have a file called November 1994 Walnut Creek CPM cdrom.iso
> > is this it?  ~635 Mb - 46860 files.
> > Bill
> >
> Bill, that's one disc out of the hundred-plus that Walnut Creek produced.
>
> g.
>
>
>
WOW.  ok


Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-10-30 Thread geneb via cctalk

On Tue, 30 Oct 2018, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote:


I have a file called November 1994 Walnut Creek CPM cdrom.iso
is this it?  ~635 Mb - 46860 files.
Bill


Bill, that's one disc out of the hundred-plus that Walnut Creek produced.

g.

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Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-10-29 Thread Bill Degnan via cctalk
I have a file called November 1994 Walnut Creek CPM cdrom.iso
is this it?  ~635 Mb - 46860 files.
Bill

On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 10:52 PM Al Kossow via cctalk 
wrote:

>
>
> On 10/29/18 6:11 AM, geneb via cctalk wrote:
>
> > This is going to be a long term project that will end when I've either
> exhausted the available CD-ROMs on the IA, or I
> > die, whichever comes first. ;)
>
> Even a full list of what CDs Jason has there w/o indexing would be helpful.
> Trying to figure out what is there is a nightmare.
>
> For a while, I had about 400gb of cd images on bitsavers until we ran out
> of disk space.
> I probably have a few hundred more gb I've read since then. I've slowly
> been trying to
> find a full set of physical disks from Walnut Creek for CHM's archive.
>
>


Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-10-29 Thread Peter Corlett via cctalk
On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 01:46:50PM -0700, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
> On 10/29/18 12:54 PM, geneb wrote:
>> Here's the Walnut Creek collection: 
>> https://archive.org/details/walnutcreekcdrom
> It sure would be nice if you could get a comma separated list of metadata
> instead of a bunch of pretty pictures

If you are looking for machine-parsable metadata, have a look at the RSS feed.



Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-10-29 Thread Ethan via cctalk
You realize that you can click a button and get a text list of those "pretty 
pictures", right?  Click the "Show Details" checkbox and you'll get a block 
of text that describes each one.

g.


I would assume he means text listings / directory listing type view.

- Ethan



Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-10-29 Thread geneb via cctalk

On Mon, 29 Oct 2018, Al Kossow wrote:




On 10/29/18 12:54 PM, geneb wrote:


Here's the Walnut Creek collection: https://archive.org/details/walnutcreekcdrom


It sure would be nice if you could get a comma separated list of metadata 
instead of
a bunch of pretty pictures

THAT is where IA is a colossal FAIL
You realize that you can click a button and get a text list of those 
"pretty pictures", right?  Click the "Show Details" checkbox and you'll 
get a block of text that describes each one.


g.



--
Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007
http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.
http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home.
Some people collect things for a hobby.  Geeks collect hobbies.

ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment
A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes.
http://scarlet.deltasoft.com - Get it _today_!


Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-10-29 Thread geneb via cctalk

On Mon, 29 Oct 2018, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:


Gee, I didn't know you collected old CD archives.

I've got some WC CDs here:

"Internet USENET source code."  CDs 1,2,3

C/C++ Users Group Library August 1997

"Toolkit for Linus"-2 CD set.
---
Developer Source Vols. 4-10 (1995-1998); archives of source code
published in magazine form, as well as a few books.  Put out by I-Mode,
Inc.  Some of the later ones are still in shrink wrap--I just got too
overloaded with the information.   I may have volumes 1-3, but I'm not sure.

Let me know and I'll some or all of them in your book box (they qualify
as "media mail", right?


That's my understanding, yes.


I probably have a ton of other goodies, since I just started tossing CDs
in a big box.


That works for me, thanks!

g.

--
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http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.
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Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-10-29 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk



On 10/29/18 12:54 PM, geneb wrote:

> Here's the Walnut Creek collection: 
> https://archive.org/details/walnutcreekcdrom

It sure would be nice if you could get a comma separated list of metadata 
instead of
a bunch of pretty pictures

THAT is where IA is a colossal FAIL



Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-10-29 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
Gee, I didn't know you collected old CD archives.

I've got some WC CDs here:

"Internet USENET source code."  CDs 1,2,3

C/C++ Users Group Library August 1997

"Toolkit for Linus"-2 CD set.
---
Developer Source Vols. 4-10 (1995-1998); archives of source code
published in magazine form, as well as a few books.  Put out by I-Mode,
Inc.  Some of the later ones are still in shrink wrap--I just got too
overloaded with the information.   I may have volumes 1-3, but I'm not sure.

Let me know and I'll some or all of them in your book box (they qualify
as "media mail", right?

I probably have a ton of other goodies, since I just started tossing CDs
in a big box.

--Chuck


Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-10-29 Thread Ethan via cctalk

Even a full list of what CDs Jason has there w/o indexing would be helpful.
Trying to figure out what is there is a nightmare.
For a while, I had about 400gb of cd images on bitsavers until we ran out of 
disk space.
I probably have a few hundred more gb I've read since then. I've slowly been 
trying to
find a full set of physical disks from Walnut Creek for CHM's archive.


I was recently talking to friends about making a Pi project with the Pi 
camera above a CD-ROM drawer, and a pushbutton to trigger picture of CD + 
ISO image automagically.


I have some AIX CDs, Oracle CDs, and old FreeBSD/Linux CDs to archive.

Years ago I had a robotic CD changer that could cycle through about 200 
discs hands off. Seems like it would be ideal now :-)


Are you short on disk space?


 --
: Ethan O'Toole




Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-10-29 Thread geneb via cctalk

On Mon, 29 Oct 2018, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:




On 10/29/18 6:11 AM, geneb via cctalk wrote:


This is going to be a long term project that will end when I've either 
exhausted the available CD-ROMs on the IA, or I
die, whichever comes first. ;)


Even a full list of what CDs Jason has there w/o indexing would be helpful.
Trying to figure out what is there is a nightmare.


All the shareware CDs are in a collection called "cdbbsarchive".
https://archive.org/details/cdbbsarchive

I'm going for all the low-hanging fruit first - sets of CDs from the likes 
of Nightowl, PsL, etc. Then I'll move on to the singles.  It's still a 
huge job though. :)  I've got a 5TB NAS that I'm storing these on, so I'm 
in no danger of running out of space. :)



For a while, I had about 400gb of cd images on bitsavers until we ran out of 
disk space.
I probably have a few hundred more gb I've read since then. I've slowly been 
trying to
find a full set of physical disks from Walnut Creek for CHM's archive.


Here's the Walnut Creek collection: 
https://archive.org/details/walnutcreekcdrom


I'm pretty sure these came straight from the guy that owned Walnut Creek.

g.

--
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http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.
http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home.
Some people collect things for a hobby.  Geeks collect hobbies.

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Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-10-29 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk



On 10/29/18 6:11 AM, geneb via cctalk wrote:

> This is going to be a long term project that will end when I've either 
> exhausted the available CD-ROMs on the IA, or I
> die, whichever comes first. ;)

Even a full list of what CDs Jason has there w/o indexing would be helpful.
Trying to figure out what is there is a nightmare.

For a while, I had about 400gb of cd images on bitsavers until we ran out of 
disk space.
I probably have a few hundred more gb I've read since then. I've slowly been 
trying to
find a full set of physical disks from Walnut Creek for CHM's archive.



Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-10-29 Thread geneb via cctalk

On Mon, 29 Oct 2018, Tomasz Rola wrote:


On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 06:11:14AM -0700, geneb via cctalk wrote:

First up is the addition of Crescent Software's entire product line.
The company produced a number of good library suites in the late 80s
and early 90's.  Note these are all DOS products - the Windows
product line was sold in the early 90's.

[...]

Wow. So many goodies.


There's more coming too.  Pics of original install media, some corporate 
"swag", and a short historical write-up by Ethan Winer and maybe some 
others.


--
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http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.
http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home.
Some people collect things for a hobby.  Geeks collect hobbies.

ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment
A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes.
http://scarlet.deltasoft.com - Get it _today_!


RE: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-10-29 Thread geneb via cctalk

On Mon, 29 Oct 2018, Ali wrote:




Next up is a HUGE CD-ROM and FTP site archive I've been working on.

http://www.retroarchive.org/cdrom/index.html

What I've done here is pull CD-ROMs from the Internet Archive and make
them easily browseable.  I've also extracted the contents of each of
the
zip, etc. files and created index files for those as well.  The goal
was
to make the material more easily accessible for both us meat bags and
search spider bots.


Very nice! Thank you for doing this!

You're welcome.  It's been a fun project.  It does suck up space fast 
though.  Each CD unpacks to about between 1.2G and 1.7GB of data. :)


g.

--
Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007
http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.
http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home.
Some people collect things for a hobby.  Geeks collect hobbies.

ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment
A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes.
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Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-10-29 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 06:11:14AM -0700, geneb via cctalk wrote:
> First up is the addition of Crescent Software's entire product line.
> The company produced a number of good library suites in the late 80s
> and early 90's.  Note these are all DOS products - the Windows
> product line was sold in the early 90's.
[...]

Wow. So many goodies.

-- 
Regards,
Tomasz Rola

--
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** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home**
** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened...  **
** **
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RE: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-10-29 Thread Ali via cctalk
 
> Next up is a HUGE CD-ROM and FTP site archive I've been working on.
> 
> http://www.retroarchive.org/cdrom/index.html
> 
> What I've done here is pull CD-ROMs from the Internet Archive and make
> them easily browseable.  I've also extracted the contents of each of
> the
> zip, etc. files and created index files for those as well.  The goal
> was
> to make the material more easily accessible for both us meat bags and
> search spider bots.

Very nice! Thank you for doing this!

-Ali



Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-10-29 Thread geneb via cctalk
First up is the addition of Crescent Software's entire product line.  The 
company produced a number of good library suites in the late 80s and early 
90's.  Note these are all DOS products - the Windows product line was sold 
in the early 90's.


http://annex.retroarchive.org/crescent/index.html

When the documentation arrives, I'll be paying the IA to get it all 
scanned.  It's a lot cheaper than me buying a Scribe scanner or building a 
DIY version. :)


Next up is a HUGE CD-ROM and FTP site archive I've been working on.

http://www.retroarchive.org/cdrom/index.html

What I've done here is pull CD-ROMs from the Internet Archive and make 
them easily browseable.  I've also extracted the contents of each of the 
zip, etc. files and created index files for those as well.  The goal was 
to make the material more easily accessible for both us meat bags and 
search spider bots.


This is going to be a long term project that will end when I've either 
exhausted the available CD-ROMs on the IA, or I die, whichever comes 
first. ;)


There's a number of holes in the sets that are on the IA - if you've got a 
disc that would fill a hole, please consider making an ISO of the disc and 
upload that along with a photo of the disc to the IA and then let me know 
so I can get it processed.


I'm also looking to acquire a manual set for QuickBASIC 4.5 and the 
Microsoft Professional Development System 7.1.  If you have either one, 
please contact me!


Thanks!

g.

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Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007
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