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MARK MERSEREAU wrote:
> 
> To anyone who can help:
> 
> My deceased wife was compiling genealogical data for a book using CP\M in a
> Kaypro 4 when she died.
> 
> I have no interest in completing her work, and probably not enough of her
> energy.  My son says he wants to finish her book.
> 
> My question:  Is there any way that I can get the data from all the 5 1/4
> inch floppies that she left?  They contain text and dBase II on double
> density disks.  I still have her Kaypro 4, and I have access to a friend's
> computer that has both DOS & Windows as well as both 5 1/4 inch and 3 1/2
> inch floppy drives.
> 
> My thanks to anyone who can help.

    The good news: Programs to read and write many CP/M disk
formats on DOS machines do in fact exist, and I used them myself
when I retired my own much-beloved Kaypro 4 some years ago.

    The bad news: I no longer remember where I got them ...

    Clues to help your search: One, try the comp.os.cpm
newsgroup; there used to be lots of folks there who did this
sort of thing regularly.  Two, try the SimTel archives at

	http://www.simtel.net/simtel.net/

... and good luck!

-- 
Eric Sosman
esosman AT acm DOT org

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