Re: ASCII Express

["N.N. Thayer" <nnthayer@hotmail.com>]

On Nov 10, 8:52 am, "sfahey" <sfa...@a2central.com.remove-6n6-this>
wrote:
>   To: mojoehand
>   Re: ASCII Express
>   By: mojoehand to comp.sys.apple2 on Tue Nov 09 2010 06:29 pm
>
>  > I have a still shrink wrapped copy of ASCII Express -- book and disk.
>  > I'm not sure whether I should open it and use the program or not. I'm
>  > not particularly interested in it as a "collectable" myself.
>
> AE Pro is a sentimental favorite of mine, but it's not really a practical
> choice for use. Keep it shrinkwrapped.
>
> If you need an 8bit terminal, use ProTerm or ModemMgr. There are others I could
> recommend, but those are the top of the heap being free, practical, supported
> and "modern" by contemporary standards.
>
> Sean Faheywww.a2central.com

To be honest, if it's a version that doesn't already exist on Asimov
or another archive, I think the value in imaging and uploading it
(thereby preserving it forever, well, for a long time anyway)
outweighs the collector's value of a physical object whose data will
disintegrate long before the Internet does.