I have got Sid Thomes 5.25" floppies with his vital records books, library inventory stuff and other things that pertain to WFGS. I have an old Commodore that uses that size disks, but when I tried to play them in there some years ago they didn't work. I don't know if he's got a secret code on them or what. Seems like Sid built his own computer, or maybe PC stuff doesn't work on a Commodore. My old Gateway with XP plays the smaller 3.5". Cynthia

Dear Cynthia, After Sid died I went to see his widow (I can't remember who went with me) and we discovered that Sid had used a program that he wrote and none of us were able to read the disks Some people volunteered to try but to my knowledge no one was able to do it. We were sure that there was a lot of good material in them.. However the camera ready copies of the three books of vital records somehow survived. I had one box of them and if my memory is still good, they were given to Clint. I can't even remember who brought the copies to me or which book they covered. I did my part of the third volume with a word perfect spreadsheet and Sid took my disksI ]and merged the material with his. I wish I could remember more but it has been quite a long timje ago and a lot as happened since then. Ginny Sat, May 7, 2011 at 9:56 PM, Cynthia Dean <cgdean@bellsouth.net> wrote: > I have got Sid Thomes 5.25" floppies with his vital records books, > library inventory stuff and other things that pertain to WFGS. I have > an old Commodore that uses that size disks, but when I tried to play > them in there some years ago they didn't work. I don't know if he's got > a secret code on them or what. Seems like Sid built his own computer, > or maybe PC stuff doesn't work on a Commodore. > > My old Gateway with XP plays the smaller 3.5". > > Cynthia > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > FL-WFGS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Ginny, You and Tom went, and I met you there. I had arranged the meeting though Sid's daughter, Lucy Belk. You and Tom got a couple of books, and I took the disks, hoping they would work on my Commodore, which used that size. But, I was not able to read anything on them. Most of them are various versions of the Vital Records books. One is First Methodist Church records. I thought there were some on the library inventory, but I may given those to someone else to do. I don't see them here now. Or maybe I'm thinking of a booklet I have where he did an inventory. I'll ask Clint if he's got that stuff, but you know all Sid's books, and our books and everything we had stored at somebody's place on the west side of town got thrown out when they closed the building and Clint did not go pick up the stuff by the deadline we were given. I have just kept Sid's disks, hoping some new technology would come along or I could find some one who could do it. I guess I'll give them to his daughter. Cynthia