jdrew@CS.UOREGON.EDU (01/04/90)
My parents/parent's church (my father is a minister) have come into the possession of a Commodore PET (8032, I think, with a double disk drive unit). As a word processor/data base program, they have something called "Silicon Office." Since neither the machine nor the software is exactly supported any more, I said I'd write for help here -- after all, if *anybody* knows solutions, someone here will. Anyway, they are (justifiably) worried about using the original program disk for booting the system each time (even with the write-protect tab on it), and would like to make an archival backup(s). However, the system disk seems to have software protection on it, and I was unable to copy it using any of the simple things I tried (using the [data] disk copy feature in the program, or the "backup" [or whatever is was called] function included in the PET operating system. Any help that could be given would be appreciated. Please send e-mail, as I don't (normally) read this group anymore. Thanks. *********************** Jim Drew "Mama...thinks I'm working in a nightclub...a jdrew@cs.uoregon.edu risque little nightclub...while wearing lacy (SCA: Colyn du Corynthe) pants. Mama...doesn't even have an inkling... that I'm living in a convent...in the southern part of France." (for other "Off-the-Beaten-Track" questions, see soc.culture.scandinavia, and rec.arts.tv)