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From: jdrew@CS.UOREGON.EDU
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Subject: Off-the-Beaten-Track Question #2
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Date: 4 Jan 90 00:10:33 GMT
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	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.

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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)