Haemogoblin
Experienced Member
Hi there guys
Earlier this week a began a thread on the forum looking for help restoring a copy of Wordstar 3.40 I picked up. This copy of Wordstar would appear to have been sold for the Apricot brand of computers.
I've had little success getting the floppies to work in my regular PC, because the disks would barely spin up. In fact it now looks like they have claimed the life of my USB floppy drive. However it's been suggested that even if I could get them to spin, I might actually not be able to read them on a regular PC, as Apricot computers used a different disk format.
Here is the link to the thread I started, which includes photo's
http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/showthread.php?44057-Looking-for-Wordstar-3-40-for-DOS
The general consensus is that these disks need to be recovered and preserved as they seem pretty rare. Wordstar 3.40 seems to have only been released in Europe, skipping the States completely. As a hoarder of old computers, I kind of feel it's worth the endeavour, as to lose a piece of computing history would be a little sad. Maybe one of you already owns this copy of Wordstar and I dont need to worry
So if there are any Apricot users out there or anyone skilled at recovering floppies, please chime in
Earlier this week a began a thread on the forum looking for help restoring a copy of Wordstar 3.40 I picked up. This copy of Wordstar would appear to have been sold for the Apricot brand of computers.
I've had little success getting the floppies to work in my regular PC, because the disks would barely spin up. In fact it now looks like they have claimed the life of my USB floppy drive. However it's been suggested that even if I could get them to spin, I might actually not be able to read them on a regular PC, as Apricot computers used a different disk format.
Here is the link to the thread I started, which includes photo's
http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/showthread.php?44057-Looking-for-Wordstar-3-40-for-DOS
The general consensus is that these disks need to be recovered and preserved as they seem pretty rare. Wordstar 3.40 seems to have only been released in Europe, skipping the States completely. As a hoarder of old computers, I kind of feel it's worth the endeavour, as to lose a piece of computing history would be a little sad. Maybe one of you already owns this copy of Wordstar and I dont need to worry
So if there are any Apricot users out there or anyone skilled at recovering floppies, please chime in