Re: Old user seks new advice

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Fred: Find a computer with 5.25 drive and copy onto 3.5 disks. Or send them to
me and I'll copy for you or I'll be glad to lend you a 5.5 drive you can install
in your pc for copying.

Best regards, Charlie Hamilton (RT alumnus)

Fred Powledge wrote:

> Dear XyWriters,
>
> I haven't used Xy for years, but have always delighted in the program,
> especially since when I started with it, the publisher was that funky,
> friendly little group in Bedford, Massachusetts. This was back in the
> prehistoric days where technical support and bug fixes existed. Somehow I
> got diverted (perverted?) to Word, and now the publications for whom I write
> wouldn't know what to do with anything that wasn't in Word format (and damn
> few of them know what to do with even that!). I've got, carefully preserved,
> all my old Xy disks going back to I suppose Version 2; also Xy for Windows;
> also even Note Bene. Also even (gulp) Signature! All of it's properly bought
> and registered. I've got the manuals, too, and whole transfer boxes full of
> notes and programming files I wrote and probably can't fathom any more.
> Going back to Xy would, in short, be a major undertaking.
>
> Nevertheless, I am being pulled back to Xy by nostalgia, the energy and
> enthusiasm of this list, and an ever-growing dislike for Bill Gates and his
> confederates.
>
> The question: I no longer have a 5.25" drive, so I would have a lot of
> trouble installing the XyDOS disks, and wonder even if the program would run
> on my P-II, 330-mhz machine. I *do* have XyWin on 3.5" disks, and made a
> stab at installing it recently, only to run into a lot of trouble which I
> won't recount here. I know, from lurking on the list, that there are those
> among you who have installed most versions on modern machines without much
> trouble.
>
> Does anybody have any suggestions about steps I should take to install the
> good old days in my setup? I would be satisfied, I guess, with XyWin, but it
> would be nice to be able to work on XyDOS, too. I would like to do this
> without sending TTG any money, since it was TTG's treatment of XyWrite's
> users that helped drive me into the arms of Micros**t in the first place.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --Fred Powledge
>
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