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Dave Karoly, post: 422351, member: 94 wrote: You mean Sierra Cybernetics?
The last time I used it was in a DOS window in Windows XP about ten years ago.
Yup. That’s it. I think I have a copy of it somewhere…might be on floppy 🙁
imaudigger, post: 422430, member: 7286 wrote: Yup. That’s it. I think I have a copy of it somewhere…might be on floppy 🙁
My old boss in the mid-1980s would drive up to Grass Valley with a bug report and list of feature requests and a case of beer (Coors maybe) then Terry would sit there coding in Zbasic pounding one beer after another throwing the empties out the window. We also found out about undocumented features that way too. I met Terry once when he came to the office to upgrade the floppy drives in our Northstar Horizon (double sided double density!!!) and added RAM, don’t remember maybe 8k to 16k. That is when we surpassed the RAM the Apollo command module had on board. He ran through some of the new features, very fast and talking a mile a minute, no idea what he said. Since we had the text files with the code we would edit things ourselves like the order of the data entry.
Microsurvey is the closest I have found except Carlson has the better printout look just like Sierra Cybernetics.
Dave Karoly, post: 422351, member: 94 wrote: You mean Sierra Cybernetics?
I hadn’t even thought about Sierra Cybernetics in years. I remember when the firm I was working for bought the software (along with a Northstar computer running CP/M, as I recall) and Terry came to set it up. He was a very high-energy guy.
I just Googled him. He died in 2003 at age 60. According to his obit, he had a degree in physics from C.U. and a degree in mechanical and civil engineering from Berkeley.
It appears that most of your opinions are in as of now, and I just want to thank everyone who responded with an idea. I think that I have a clue as to what to do at this point, even a blind hog finds an ear of corn once in a while.:) I have even purchased off of ebay (wow that was fun) an Iomega zip disk as I discovered some old Zip disks I didn’t even know I had. MAYBE the solution will be there. Sincere thanks to all.
Robert Locke
I will have to pull IOmega out of the box of ancient dos machines and see if it will connect to my Win7 or XP.
Have mucho archived data on those disks.We’re facing a second wave of data retrieval issues. One hopes that the “cloud” resolves a lot of this …
Dave Karoly, post: 422539, member: 94 wrote: My old boss in the mid-1980s would drive up to Grass Valley with a bug report and list of feature requests and a case of beer (Coors maybe) then Terry would sit there coding in Zbasic pounding one beer after another throwing the empties out the window. We also found out about undocumented features that way too. I met Terry once when he came to the office to upgrade the floppy drives in our Northstar Horizon (double sided double density!!!) and added RAM, don’t remember maybe 8k to 16k. That is when we surpassed the RAM the Apollo command module had on board. He ran through some of the new features, very fast and talking a mile a minute, no idea what he said. Since we had the text files with the code we would edit things ourselves like the order of the data entry.
Microsurvey is the closest I have found except Carlson has the better printout look just like Sierra Cybernetics.
Around here that program (among many others) was shared freely between surveyors…times have changed.
Try https://deedprosoftware.com/
It’s deed plotting software online. Exports to Google Earth. Great for creating plats.
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