WANTED: someone to transfer IBM 5110 BASIC programs

[steven stengel]

Apparently, there are *150* diskettes to be read...
It may be easier to send the computer to him...
....except that it weighs over 100 pounds.



--- On Mon, 12/1/08, steven stengel <tosteve at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: steven stengel <tosteve at yahoo.com>
> Subject: WANTED: someone to transfer IBM 5110 BASIC programs to modern PC
> To: cctech at classiccmp.org
> Date: Monday, December 1, 2008, 11:16 AM
> Hello,
> A gentleman from the East Coast contacted me to see if I
> can extract old BASIC programs from his IBM-5110 8-inch
> floppy disks.
> 
> I have a working IBM-5120 with internal floppy drives, but
> the serial communications option is not installed in my
> system. 
> 
> I think the best I can do is LIST the programs and
> photograph the screen.
> 
> Any other ideas? 
> Anyone else with a serial port who can do it? 
> Anyone with a spare communications card?
> 
> Thanks-
> Steven Stengel