On the good side, however, it is likely anything typed on a computer in 1984 can be retrieved through DOS as the simplest of text. I'm trying to think back to the year... my first computer was the TRS 80 (I think that was it), and if the data could actually be retrieved (the questionable part), it should be readable in DOS by using the "type" or "edit" command. I think that computer had the 8" floppies. My next computer... TI 99/A by Texas Instruments read all the data onto cassette tapes, which I still have. Until only about 3 months ago, I was the official 5 1/4" floppy disk reader in our office because I still had the drive. Fortunately... I finally got my new computer too, and am still figuring out why I need 2 CDROM drives. I must have missed the original post :/ Kelly > -----Original Message----- > From: MAK [mailto:makkuehl@yahoo.com] > Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2000 12:13 PM > To: WIGEN-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [WIGEN-L] why retype the list??? > > > For re-typing in information, if done on a computer in the early 1980s or > prior, then it might have been keypunched in. Personal computers weren't > readily available, until about 1984. And it was a 8088 processor > with 5 1/2 > inch floppies. Not only would the computer storage disk be out > of date, but > all the software it was probably written in. > > THINK ABOUT IT... Kinda like asking why we can't get the Black > and White TV > programs before the color TV was on the market, about the early > 1960s! (grin) > R/S MAK > > ===== > ===== > TheStorm http://www.rootsweb.com/TheStorm > MAK = "Mar sea ah Ann Keel" > ===== > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. > http://im.yahoo.com > > > ==== WIGEN Mailing List ==== > Visit the Ashland County WIGenWeb Project Pages > http://www.usgennet.org/~ahwiashl/index.html >