Mike Chambers
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hi all! i got a new vintage machine today, woo hoo! for free, too.
i met an older guy who had a problem. at his church, they had an old 8088 system with their 5000+ membership registry that has been building up since the mid 80's on that thing. apparently the lady who operated the machine just died about a month ago, and nobody at the church has any idea how to get the database off of that old thing.
i told him i'd do it cheap and if i get to keep the machine, which he obviously didnt have any use for. he was delighted, so i got the machine and so now it is here. it looks like all the data on it is stored using DBASE3... i think i can manage to get the data out into text files but if anybody has some good info on how to best do this, let me know!
anyway, i have the monitor, keyboard, dot matrix printer (lol), and a whole bunch of random disks with it. it's a neat machine, i'll post some pics up later. looks like an IBM clone from a company called "BMI" and even the BMI logo is made to look like the old IBM logo.
EDIT: pics on page 2
-mike
i met an older guy who had a problem. at his church, they had an old 8088 system with their 5000+ membership registry that has been building up since the mid 80's on that thing. apparently the lady who operated the machine just died about a month ago, and nobody at the church has any idea how to get the database off of that old thing.
i told him i'd do it cheap and if i get to keep the machine, which he obviously didnt have any use for. he was delighted, so i got the machine and so now it is here. it looks like all the data on it is stored using DBASE3... i think i can manage to get the data out into text files but if anybody has some good info on how to best do this, let me know!
anyway, i have the monitor, keyboard, dot matrix printer (lol), and a whole bunch of random disks with it. it's a neat machine, i'll post some pics up later. looks like an IBM clone from a company called "BMI" and even the BMI logo is made to look like the old IBM logo.
EDIT: pics on page 2
-mike
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