XPost: alt.os.windows.xp, corel.wpoffice.wordperfect10, alt.windows7.general   
   From: Sh@dow.br   
      
   On Fri, 28 Feb 2020 12:33:41 -0800, pyotr filipivich   
    wrote:   
      
   >At a nearby thrift store, there has been a laptop for sale:   
   >"untested". $9.99 plus tax.   
   >	It works, has all the stuff for it, still in original case.   
   >Windows 95.  So the question came to me ?Do I have the install disks   
   >for an earlier version of  WP?   
   >	And this is the portent.  I was able to find the storage drawers   
   >with all the 3.5 floppies in it, near the top of the pile.  And   
   >unsealing the drawers, in the first (of six possible) drawer, were the   
   >install disks.   
   >	And they still work, so I now have an antique laptop for general   
   >note taking in the Study (which is generally "off-line" and not the   
   >computer office.)   
   >	I do not know if this is a good thing or not.   
      
   	It's good.   
   	Make an image of those floppies. They won't last forever now   
   they're "out in the open" ... someone WILL spill coffee on them.   
   	;)   
   	[]'s   
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