And On This Farm He Had A Blog

@jextxadore No this is the Rube Goldberg plan

• This system goes to Florida with the DOS version of laplink installed and the appropriate cables to connect to their 26 year old machine.
• Once the data is sucked over to this machine via laplink, they winzip it up and send it, via ftp, to me. This machine has functional TCP/IP networking and can do that.
• I convert the ancient CTREE data to something from this era and build them an installer they can download and install on a new Windows 10 system that's sitting there and waiting.
• They send me this computer back when it's over because it has a bunch of my old crap it It that is hard to replace

@jextxadore I need the 98 CD to install Client for Microsoft Networks so it can hit our file server.

@jextxadore Windows 98. I have a DOS system that can FTP and Telnet but I'm not about to send that one off.

Hmm. No Windows 98 CD. Have an ISO but no CDR blanks. Also, not certain that the CD-ROM drive in the thing works and I have no IDE CDROM drives to replace it with so..

• Mount ISO on a linux box.
• Hit that with FTP from this Frankenstein creation.
• Copy CAB files over.

It's alive!
And it is not happy about it.

@skematica To the contrary, it was a lot more feasible before 9/11. I remember a flight to Mexico a long, long time ago. Customs was little more than, "Hey, what's up". Boom. Done. Only reason I was stopped coming back in was an agent wanted to know how much I paid for the marble chess set I was bringing back and where I picked it up. She thought it was awesome.

It's a lot different now.

// @larand @konrad

@literary It looked like a great tool for doing things free form and out of sequence which is the way my mind works for writing. However, I'm not the family writer. Well, I am but I with code instead of prose. Not so sure Sidekick would take to it. :)

@larand There are a lot of practical, business reasons to drive too. Having the freedom to drop in on a customer and check up on them is priceless.

// @konrad

@literary My wife and I both have purchased Scrivener but have yet to even install it. I guess we are "stuck in our ways" to some extent. I really need to install it and have a look-see.

@jextxadore I have a ruggedized Android phone with dual sim. Got it for software testing. Came straight from China. Can't use it for anything else though because I am on Verizon.