Re: Installing Xy DOS from orig. disks

["John H. Kessel" kessel.1@xxxxxxxx]

Patricia:
    The only claim I have to expertise in this group is that I'm
old enough
to remember how things used to be, and I sometimes keep various
materials.

    I purchased Xy4.016 from The Technology Group in February, 1995. It
came on 4 3" floppies. Slightly earlier Kevin Duvall, a TTG techie
through who had
told me that Xy4 existed sent me a single 3" floppy containing some zipped
XY3 files and some printer drivers I needed. Like you, I'm almost certain the
first XY3 programs came on 5.25" floppies.

                        John


At 04:05 PM 2/3/2007, you wrote:
> Pienciak Family wrote:
> > As I recall, there was a Y2K fix needed for XYWrite 3. I remember
> > discovering the problem and writing to the forum about it.
> > I also seem to recall XY3 being on 3.5" disks.
> As far as Y2K goes, we went round this mulberry bush in 2005, when
> Bry was compiling his history of Xy versions. At that time, I came
> across and cited a post from Myron Gochnauer on Aug. 19, 2004:
> ≪If I recall correctly, 3.58 corrected a Y2K problem with earlier
> versions, but other than that no improvements were announced (nor
> noticed by me).≫
> As for 3-in floppies, I'm pretty sure all the full releases of III
> were on 5-inch ones, but XyQuest did send out some patches, updates,
> and .prn files on 3-inch ones.
> Go to the archives and look at the threads on XyWrite history?
> (timeline) about Oct. of 2005 for the whole megillah.
> --
> Patricia M. Godfrey
> PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx

John H. Kessel
Ohio State University
kessel.1@xxxxxxxx