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Looking for basic floppies

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Name: farl
Date: July 16, 2004 at 20:00:57 Pacific
Subject: Looking for basic floppies
OS: DOS
CPU/Ram: MMX133 128mb

Comment:

Recently acquired the book " Learn Basic Now " by M Halvorson & D Rygmyr Microsoft Press 1989 ISBN 1-55615-240-X and during a recent move tragically the two disks for the book were damaged beyond repair.
Searched everywhere including Ebay Australia but no luck.The couple of copies I found had the floppies missing.
Microsoft Press could not assist either.
Any of you DOS enthusiasts have a copy and perhaps could mail them to me as my ISP email does not like file attachments over 1MB.

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Response Number 1

Name: jboy
Date: July 16, 2004 at 22:10:06 Pacific

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No joy here - have you checked QuickBasic Cafe?
Don't know if you came across this in your search ; )

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Response Number 2

Name: farl
Date: July 17, 2004 at 23:54:57 Pacific

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jboy. Have put a posting on cafe. Thanks for reference.
Computing is just a hobby for an old guy who wants to keep the grey matter active.

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Response Number 3

Name: jboy
Date: July 18, 2004 at 00:03:44 Pacific

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QuickBasic is still alive and well - if you can't locate those disks, at least there are likely a few other resources out there.
good luck

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Response Number 4

Name: ludedude25
Date: July 18, 2004 at 19:44:01 Pacific

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http://www.qbasic.com/
What exactly are the disc's your looking for? Quickbasic or the disk's that came with your book?

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Response Number 5

Name: jboy
Date: July 18, 2004 at 20:34:06 Pacific

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I believe he's looking for the companion disks:
Learn BASIC Now, by Michael Halvorson and David Rygmyr, Microsoft Press, Includes 5.25" companion disks with QuickBASIC interpretor
.. but I'm not sure if he has the actual interpreter etc.

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Response Number 6

Name: farl
Date: July 18, 2004 at 20:35:01 Pacific

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ludedude25. Thanks for your reply.
I am looking for the disks that came with the book as the book is a step by step training package that works in conjunction with the floppies.
Just found a few copies of the book with the floppies on a place called half ebay but when I tried to join with my Australian Ebay details it said the site was only available to US and Canadian residents. What a bomber.

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