An older colleague of mine is looking for a copy of an ancient DOS program sold in the 1980's as MTI Surveying Software by an outfit known as Morton Technologies, Inc. in Santa Rosa, California. The situation is that he's used that creaky old software for more than 25 years and has found himself in the position of trying to restore some corrupted files, but his backup discs are having their own problems.
His options are:
a) at age 80, try to learn completely new software that runs in windows.
b) at age 80, try to find someone who still has a copy of MTI and who is willing to share it with someone who actually is a licensed user.
This is reaching way back into the wayback machine on this, but I told him I'd ask in case some reader has a copy or knows anything about the whereabouts of the program's author. Does anyone?
Kent-
Not only do I have MTI software, I still use it every day running under Windows XP!
If you send me contact information, I'll send it out this weekend.
Jeff
Wow!
Wow! That's absolutely amazing. A solution to a pretty obscure problem in only an hour! I know one 80-year-old surveyor who is going to be overjoyed at this news.
Yeah!
I watched this whole thing unfold and went googling "Survey 31" to see if it was also called MTI(I know some locals that probably still have Survey 31 machines). By the time I got back here the problem was solved. Nice job Gromaticus. Welcome aboard.
Kent would that surveyor happen to be the FINE gentleman who wears spats?
RADU
Software being referred to as "ancient" and "vintage"? I'm getting old.
How about option 3: retire. I thought the survey gods were trying to tell him something, that is before Gromaticus was resurrected and appeared here. 🙂
Wow!
That's funny, we still have MTI and use it occasionally when we need to get data from an old job. We have been trying to get the info off of the old disks and save it to the server, but we find many of the disks unusable.
> Kent would that surveyor happen to be the FINE gentleman who wears spats?
Richard, yes that's the one you met.
> How about option 3: retire.
Actually, Charles is retired. When you're retired, you can be much choosier about which jobs you take on, so he does only a few a year. I spoke with him today and learned that his surveying software is back up and running after a corrupted executable was reloaded.
Hi Jeff,
don't know if you're still out there, but this thread came up when I was searching on the web trying to find a way to access our archived MTI files from the 80's. Our disk has long since gone missing. Do you still have a copy of the mti software AND are you still willing to share it.
Thanks,
Alan Woodis, LS (CT)
> Kent-
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> Not only do I have MTI software, I still use it every day running under Windows XP!
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> If you send me contact information, I'll send it out this weekend.
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> Jeff
Sorry I'm late to the party but I do have a slight problem. Being 42 and getting into the surveying/engineering field around 2000 I never had the privilege of working with MTI. The company I work for still has some hundreds+ files that occasionally we want to revisit. I have a copy of the MTI software. How can I export it to cad. I keep getting the message the file does not exist. any help would be greatly appreciated so we can get access back to these files
Most of the DOS cogo programs had a command to output an asci file.
The file extension could be reset to be *.txt, *.asc or any number of others that would upload into today's cadd programs.