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Construction Schedule (post #192186)

tkiser on Sun, 08/08/2010 - 10:56
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I am looking for a remodel/ room addition schedule program. I had a great one but my new laptop does not accept 5-1/4” floppy disk. Addition is a 300k 1400 sq. ft. full basement. It should take 6 months to complete.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Tim

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You should be able to find a (post #192186, reply #1 of 4)

by SteveSchoene in reply to tkiser [original] on Mon, 08/16/2010 - 09:59

You should be able to find a friend with a desk top who could copy your floppy disk onto media your laptop to read.  No need to learn a new program. 

It is going to be hard to (post #192186, reply #2 of 4)

by gfretwell in reply to SteveSchoene [original] on Fri, 08/20/2010 - 20:26

It is going to be hard to find anyone with a 5.25" floppy. It is hard enough to find a machine made in the last 5 years or so with any diskette drive.

Maybe a PC shop or someone like Office depot/max

Ya gotta question whether a (post #192186, reply #3 of 4)

by DanH in reply to SteveSchoene [original] on Sat, 08/21/2010 - 01:00

Ya gotta question whether a program delivered on floppy will even run on a "modern" computer.


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If you are running XP, there (post #192186, reply #4 of 4)

by gfretwell in reply to DanH [original] on Sat, 08/21/2010 - 22:29

If you are running XP, there is a freeware program called DOSBOX that creates a DOS environment within XP that will run just about anything from that era.

Altermately you could just boot a DOS system on a floppy or a thumb drive and be running real DOS.

I have a DOS thumb drive that I use when I want to run my old aps. You can still format all of a 2 gig thumb drive FAT 16 and have more disk space that a DOS writer could even imagine.

When you run a DOS ap that was written for a 16mz PC it runs like a scalded dog on a 2.8 gz PC. Unfortunately it does not really see most of your memory but it also does not miss it.