<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp6f886528yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div><div>Hi Stephen and everybody else who has responded on list and off list,</div><div><br></div><div>First of all I must say thanks.</div><div><br></div><div>And yes, I agree with everybody that say CDROM/DVD are not good long term backups (at least not the ones you burn at home); and me working in Information Systems should know better. But as we say in Spanish: "En casa de herrero, cuchillo de palo" (literal translations is "In blacksmith home, you have wood fork").</div><div><br></div><div>Also, I have "lost" (they are not really lost, just very well stored by my wife, so well stored that not even her remembers where they are) all my hard drives with backups of many of my softwares, including ham radio software. So I have been scavenging all my boxes here at home and the net for all those software I used to have.</div><div><br></div><div>After the hurricane, I lost my last personal working PC (desktop style) and a little after that, I lost my working laptop (which belonged to my ex-employer) when my employer at that time ended operations and recalled the equipment back.</div><div><br></div><div>Now recently I managed to put back to work an old desktop that used to belong to my late father. And I also got donated an old laptop I have been putting back to work. They are old and with low power CPU, but at least they do the basic job done.</div><div><br></div><div>I have been setting all my old ham radio software on those machines, specially the laptop, and that includes the APRS programs (old and new) since I may not use them all regularly (specially the old ones), but sometimes I use them for historical/educational/fun reasons. Those include the old programs WinAPRS, UI-View, and the APRSPoint for which I asked for a copy of the media (the APRSPoint which included the mappoint license sold by Cai; which I am still looking for). Of more recent programs, and that I normally use more on day to day basis, YAAC.</div><div><br></div><div>I also installed the Balloon Trak program from EOSS, in case that I do again; I have not done one in a long time; a balloon chase.</div><div><br></div><div>Hurricane Maria taught us that we must be more prepared than before, and I hope I can have all this things (and many others) ready soon.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks again.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="ydp6f886528signature"><div>Francisco Diaz<br>NP3OD<br><br>For weather in the San Juan, PR area <a href="http://www.np3od.tk/cumulus" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.np3od.tk/cumulus/</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>
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On Friday, November 23, 2018, 6:12:59 PM GMT-4, Stephen H. Smith <wa8lmf2@aol.com> wrote:
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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
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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 shape="rect" class="ydpe6a10d39yiv1206763045moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:np3od@yahoo.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">np3od@yahoo.com</a></div></div>
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<p>More confirmation of what I have repeatedly warned people
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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
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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
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<p> <a shape="rect" class="ydpe6a10d39yiv1206763045moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://wa8lmf.net/hamdisks/APRSPoint457.msi" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><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 clear="none">
Skype: WA8LMF<br clear="none">
EchoLink: Node # 14400 [Think bottom of the 2-meter band]<br clear="none">
Home Page: <a shape="rect" class="ydpe6a10d39yiv1206763045moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wa8lmf.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://wa8lmf.net</a><br clear="none">
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