From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,b2d36a382ccbeb18 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeedt0.toon.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.mixmin.net!news2.arglkargh.de!nuzba.szn.dk!news.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!not-for-mail From: "Randy Brukardt" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How Would a Hobbyist Learn Ada? Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:17:46 -0500 Organization: Jacob's private Usenet server Message-ID: References: <19-dnWNkPNukX83VnZ2dnUVZ_tPinZ2d@comcast.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: static-69-95-181-76.mad.choiceone.net X-Trace: jacob-sparre.dk 1213305494 28029 69.95.181.76 (12 Jun 2008 21:18:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@jacob-sparre.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:18:14 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5512 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5512 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:679 Date: 2008-06-12T16:17:46-05:00 List-Id: wrote in message news:19-dnWNkPNukX83VnZ2dnUVZ_tPinZ2d@comcast.com... > >would be nice to transcribe those from VHS tape to something digital, > >even >>though they would be much use these days (they're geared toward Ada 83 on >>MS-DOS). Could put them on our website or something.) > Cool! Do it! Since I don't have (and never have had) a VHS tape deck, it would be seriously hard to do that. It surely isn't worth spending money to do. I'd have a better chance with 8" floppy disks (I've kept a set of those drives, although it would probably take a lot of futzing around [cleaning contacts and the like] to get them to work). Randy.