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  Hugh,
Know what you mean most of my programs where stored on 5 1/4 floppy's 
and I no longer have a machine with a disk drive that big, though I 
still have several hundred disks in their storage boxes will have to 
throw them out one day but they represent a lot of hours of work even if 
they are of no relevance in this day
Finally got my pics from France the real estate agent managed to send 
them in a format that arrived in one piece, I'm thinking of buying a 
summer cottage to hide in from our winter I know it doesn't get that 
cold here but this year its been freezing literally, actuality got down 
to -1 at one  stage and  my knees cant handle that
frank

On 9/3/2010 2:59 PM, HUGH wrote:
> Frank,
> I find it's sometimes possible to get a thing open by trying 
> everything in sight.  When I had the HD with a corrupted file system, 
> rendering all my unbacked up files unopenable (no access to them), the 
> DVD with the recovered contents had a fair number of jpegs and other 
> files that would not open by normal means.  I found that Internet 
> Explorer would often open a duff jpeg, at least enough to let me see 
> what it was, and it turned out everything had a backup somewhere.
> Your comments on BASIC and compiling take me back a bit.  My machine 
> runs BASIC - I just ignore the popup saying it doesn't - and I've 
> still got all my old stuff from the 70s/80s on it and elsewhere.  
> Things I wrote in Kincaids run in a flash.  Due to the 
> unaccustomed speed and power of the original shiny new IBM desktop 
> machines that appeared one day, we had to insert loops in programs to 
> slow things down - if I had the time I'd have to multiply their 
> lengths by a couple of million now.  We had developed a program to 
> print the screen - it took 20 minutes to print a drawing of the Eiffel 
> Tower - before we got down to the compiling stage, software appeared 
> on the market that did it a wee bit faster.  And we're still 
> advertised as "silver surfers".
> Hugh.
>
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