On 11/25/2012 06:56 PM, Jay Lozier wrote:
/snip/
important for long term accessibility. Most long term users can
remember proprietary formats for software that were very popular 15+
years ago that are unreadable by any software in current release. To
make matters worse you may even have files you would like to read in
these formats. You may find a conversion software that claims to
accurately convert the obsolete format to a currently used format - I
can not vouch for anyone's claims.
The problem with any proprietary format is whether someone will
continue to provide software that can edit it in the future or will it
eventually become an orphan. Amipro and Wordstar come to mind and I am
sure others can be named.
I can send a copy of WordStar if anybody needs it. (DOS version.)
However, you're right about the CPM version--I had it on 8" floppy,
and I threw all of them out many years ago--probably nobody has a
working 8" drive anymore!
--doug
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