Re: Conversion filters (was NB Win availability)

[mike shupp ms44278@xxxxxxxx]

Russ W. Urquhart wrote:

> So, WRT Inso and the Word for Word filters, this was technology that was lost!
>
> Is it just me, or isn't it ironic, that in our march forward of latest software/hardware/OS, etc. that technology can get lost, so much so, that someone else will have to come along and re-invent the wheel?

One of my profs has a batch of special purpose statistical programs from
20 or 30 years ago, preserved
as about ten boxes of 80-column punched cards. There's apparently
nothing quite them in commercially
available software and I stopped in recently at the university computing
center to see if there was a
card reader and some software for transcribing this stuff-- provoking
just about hysterical laughter.
I's not just word processers that get left behind by "progress."

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Mike Shupp
Graduate Student, Dept of Anthropology
California State University, Northridge
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