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Re: storage

2004-11-25 by Jerry in Houston

<<ArleneLoveL@... wrote:
> I have a whole book stored  on 3 1/2" floppies made 
on 
> a Brothers Word Processor  in about 1987. There's 
not a 
> machine around that can read those floppies. >>

If you are referring to the same Brother word
processor as my daughter used in college, Brother used
a proprietary formatting such that it was not readable
by any other computer, even then.....

Jerry in Houston

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