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Subject: Re: Janus Ada 1.5 Ada cp/m manuals
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On 2021-08-17 11:03, Paul Rubin wrote:
> "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:
>> I've offered to others to scan it to PDFs (one per page, that's all I can
>> figure out how to do on our cheap multifunction machine here)
> 
> Do you think you could scan and post one page, maybe from the middle, so
> we would know what we are dealing with?

I saw a few forums about reading 8" floppies. It looks quite doable. 
Floppies are very reliable too, my old 3.5" floppies from 90's are still 
readable. I think there are good chances of success.

Conversion from typesetting to HTML would be a neat Ada program... (:-))

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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