On 2000-10-04 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <Chad> said:
>I am looking at my manual now. It says that I can install it 5
>times fromthe original disks, but only once from back up disk.
>Only 2 back up disks are allowed.
It seems peculiar, looking back, that IBM protected their software
in this way -- but that was their business.
>I have never installed it becasue I wanted to find a way to get
>around this limited install deal. I tried copying the disk several
>ways, but was unable to make a copy of the original install disk.
>My goal was to be able to make more than one "original" install
>disks. That way I could install it as many times as I wanted.
You've done more with it than me. I figured that, if I could install
it at least once on this authentic IBM AT, that would be adequate; I
like having some of the old IBM products on this machine for display.
>I don't really need to use it, Though. I bought it cheap from
>Goodwill with all the original disks and manual, in very good shape.
>I'll buy almost any old IBM software cheap when I see it at
>Goodwill.
My copy came from work, where it was thrown out; it appears to be in as
good a shape as yours (with copies already made). If you install it,
you'll see that it's actually not that bad -- especially if you'd like
to chart the progress of a stock in dollars or whatever. I notice that
the way that IBM Graphing Assistant charts and prints its histograms
is about the same in appearance as those I still see in company stock
reports. In color, it's really a good little program that's still
useful -- though quite archaic by today's graphic standards, and awkward
to operate, in my opinion.
Jerry [o:--] "The" IBM AT/5170 model 319 [--^~---] 9600kbps/30M HD
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