advice please - re: old software
My wife used to run a commenrcial typesetting shop. She closed it down in 1999. We were cleaning out the closet the other day and found a ton of old software. It's got to be 20 years old, on floppy...
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The problem is finding a disk drive for 5 1/2" floppies. If you have the plastic case 3 1/2" floppies there are still disk drives sold that will install in a desktop PC that will read these disks. I have one in a computer that I built as we have software that came on those 3 1/2" disks. If the software did what you needed it to do before it will still do that now. They will run under Win XP - and if you have a copy of Win XP you can install it on a software Virtual Drive - there are good free Virtual Drives available. The upper versions of Win 7 have a Virtual Drive and Win XP built in. Just because MS is not supporting Win XP any longer does not mean it magically stops working. And for those that think software that is 15 years old is useless - you would be surprised how many still use it and older - including some businesses - and some of it DOS. If it works, it works. What may not work are software specific print drivers.
