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SLMR
As I often struggle with the IMO awful message editor here, I often think about the old BBS days when we used a shareware program called Silly Little Mail Reader ( SLMR ). Not to be confused with t...
Oh... the memories. I forget what I used to use. Wasn't SLMR, but was something I used for RIME, FIDO, et. all.
Wait... it was RelayMail. Used that for years.
I might even have it here on some 5.25" media that I can no longer read and is likely degaussed by nature... but I can't bear to throw anything away, so it's still here.
MarkJFine wrote:Oh... the memories. I forget what I used to use. Wasn't SLMR, but was something I used for RIME, FIDO, et. all.
Wait... it was RelayMail. Used that for years.
I might even have it here on some 5.25" media that I can no longer read and is likely degaussed by nature... but I can't bear to throw anything away, so it's still here.
You can still get USB 3.5 floppy drives fairly easily, not so 5.25s.
I couldn't find the CD of my 'C' library of functions, that I had written or acquired over 20 years, so I bought a 3.5 USB drive expecting to recover it from the many 3.5 disks that I still had. The disks data was still readable, but I had somehow lost the 'C' library disks. Just goes to show that you can never have too many backups!
Anybody want a copy of Turbo 'C', Borland 'C', Microsoft 'C', and Power 'C' on the original 3.5 floppies? Just kidding, I'm going to hang on to them. :>)>
