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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/23/2018 4:37 PM, Francisco Diaz
via aprssig wrote:<br>
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<div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">In Janury 2006 I bought
APRSPoint, which included MapPoint 2004. Today I was
trying to install the software, but unfortunately both
disks seem to be bad, probably from age. Last time I
used them (a year ago) they worked fine. And I made the
mistake of not making some sort of backup of them.
Also, to my bad luck, APRSPoint is out of business, so I
can not ask them for help.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">So the question is this,
does anybody in the list still have that software
(APRSPoint with MapPoint), that could make .ISO images
of both disks and send them to me online?</div>
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<div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Any help would be
appreciated. If you feel more confortable answering me
off the list, I have no problem; my email is
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:np3od@yahoo.com">np3od@yahoo.com</a></div>
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<p>More confirmation of what I have repeatedly warned people
about: Recordable CDs & DVDs are NOT archival media suitable
for long-term storage. <br>
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<p>APRSpoint is actually a plug-in or add-on to MS MapPoint. You
must have MapPoint installed first. MapPoint is now a
discontinued product with the final version being the 2013
edition. <br>
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<p>[ALL of the locally-stored independent-of-the-Internet mapping
packages (Delorme Street Atlas, Delorme TopoUSA, MapPoint and
Microsoft MapPoint fell victim to the smartphone foolishness of
assuming you can be constantly tethered to the Internet and only
need Google Maps. -- They were all discontinued In the same
period of about 18 months. As you well know in PR, you CAN'T
depend on the Internet always being there. Not to mention the
hundreds of thousands of square miles of western North America
that have NO CELL COVERAGE AT ALL, even without a hurricane.]</p>
<p>I have cached the last version ever of APRSpoint (ver 4.57) on my
website at <br>
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<p> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://wa8lmf.net/hamdisks/APRSPoint457.msi"><http://wa8lmf.net/hamdisks/APRSPoint457.msi></a></p>
<p>The out-of-print MapPoint (both the North American and European
versions) can usually be found on the Bittorrent peer-to-peer file
shareing networks.</p>
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<p>Stephen H. Smith wa8lmf (at) aol.com <br>
Skype: WA8LMF<br>
EchoLink: Node # 14400 [Think bottom of the 2-meter band]<br>
Home Page: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wa8lmf.net">http://wa8lmf.net</a><br>
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Live Off-The-Air APRS Activity Maps<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://wa8lmf.net/map"><http://wa8lmf.net/map></a><br>
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Long-Range APRS on 30 Meters HF <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://wa8lmf.net/aprs/HF_APRS_Notes.htm"><http://wa8lmf.net/aprs/HF_APRS_Notes.htm></a><br>
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