[OPLINTECH] Such a deal ! Disquettes 90mm

[Dan Will]

OpenOffice  no....LibreOffice YES. Here's a quote from this article
<http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/zdnet-uk-first-take-10013312/libreoffice-33-10
021613/>  on ZDNet: 

 

<snip>

LibreOffice promises improved WordPerfect import (and it does handle line
spacing, tables and footers well), 

as well as new import filters for Lotus Word Pro and - more usefully -
Microsoft Works.

</snip>

 

This should cover reverse Compatibility for you. ;^)

 

Dan Will

Technology Supervisor

Meigs County District Public Library

 <mailto:willda at oplin.org> willda at oplin.org

740.992.5813

740.992.6140 (fax)

 

"When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you
most powerfully: 

the church that belongs to God and the public library that belongs to you.  

The public library is the great equalizer." 

Keith Richards

 

 

 

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Ah... Reverse Compatibility. Are there any initiatives in the state to help
design and maintain reasonable access to antiquated media formats and
readers? For example, we have a lawyer who uses our library frequently who
complained about not being able to open a WordPerfect document on a state
server of legal documents. I checked OpenOffice and GoogleDocs, and neither
were of assistance in this case. 

 

 

 

Shelley Bylica

Public Services Librarian,

Marvin Memorial Library

419-347-5576 ext1

 

 

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Perhaps one of the following should qualify as archaic:

 

Clevite-Brush magnetic disk player (language lab circa 1950s)

 

wire recorder dictation unit.

 

Lantern slide projector

 

Magic lantern projector (kerosene lamp)

 

Picture postcard projector (early form of opaque projector)

 

ahh!... for the good old days...

 

Bruce Landis

Technology Specialist

Chillicothe and Ross County Public Library  <mailto:landisbr at oplin.org>
landisbr at oplin.org

 

 

 

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-snirk-

 

What, no 8" floppies left there, Bob?  Or, are you hoarding them for your
own private museum?

 

(this coming from the guy who has an XT with 11 mb HD in his garage, and a
14" disk-platter from a Sperry-Univac in his attic)

 

... which kinda begs the question... what *is* the most archaic equipment
anyone has, either in-use or squirreled away someday pending a Prehistoric
PC auction on eBay?

 

Steve

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Ashtabula County District Library

335 West 44th Street - Ashtabula, Ohio 44004

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>Available ~ free of charge.

> 

> (2) two unopened boxes of 50 pcs. Verbatim Datalife MF 2HD Formatted 

> IBM 1.44mb Disquettes 90mm  (3.5" Microdisks) Certified 100% 

> error-free by the manufacturer Has Verbatim Lifetime Warranty

> 

> ACT FAST !!!     Offer may expire soon.

> 

> Pristine condition , still in shrink-wrap.

> Potential collector item (in a few hundred years or so).

> 

> Please provide US Cargo number.

> 

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> Community Library

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> Sunbury, Oh 43074

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