Early writings

[lovecraft68]

My earliest writings are literally just that. I have several notebooks that are had written stories. They are action adventure-I am going back to my mid to late teens. I used to be a huge fan of Sapir/Murphy's Destroyer series and old corny pulp stuff like The Spider.

I also have a bunch of real bad Lovecraft copycat stories (you know insert the name of one of his old ones, plug in the name of one of the forbidden texts etc...)

The problem is, aside from my penmanship being barely legible, is fading and staining. I almost tossed them when I found them five years ago but wife said to keep them for the hell of it.

Last year I resurrected one of the fight scenes, cleaned it up, and placed it into one of my stories.

I guess maybe this is one of the few times it paid off to never be into computers (did not own my first one until 6 years ago)

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

My earliest writings are literally just that. I have several notebooks that are had written stories. They are action adventure-I am going back to my mid to late teens. I used to be a huge fan of Sapir/Murphy's Destroyer series and old corny pulp stuff like The Spider.

I also have a bunch of real bad Lovecraft copycat stories (you know insert the name of one of his old ones, plug in the name of one of the forbidden texts etc...)

The problem is, aside from my penmanship being barely legible, is fading and staining. I almost tossed them when I found them five years ago but wife said to keep them for the hell of it.

Last year I resurrected one of the fight scenes, cleaned it up, and placed it into one of my stories.

I guess maybe this is one of the few times it paid off to never be into computers (did not own my first one until 6 years ago)

All your writing is early writing.

Dear Reader. Dont let LOVE BOAT fool you. Until he fled Albania 6 months ago he was a potato picker, and had no idea what paper was.

 

[lovecraft68]

All your writing is early writing.

Dear Reader. Dont let LOVE BOAT fool you. Until he fled Albania 6 months ago he was a potato picker, and had no idea what paper was.

Dear reader,

James is just bitter because he is still in Albania. Good news for him however, is that he does not have to pick spuds cause the master of the plantation took a shine to him.

 

[Jake Marlow]

In high school and middle school I wrote in longhand and on an electric Smith Corona typewriter. Briefly in college I used a Brother self-contained wordprocessor, which was basically a typewriter with a small brain. Those files can't be read by anything else, but it did use a 3.5 floppy.

There's really no reason your computer shouldn't be able to open those disks, so they probably became damaged at some point. I can access disks from that era on my computer, which is 64-bit Vista. Now, if you could access them, the trick would be to find something that can emulate that old a version of WordPerfect or translate the file. I'm not sure current versions of Word can open that.

 

[PennLady]

Well, I just popped one in my husband's desktop PC, and it says:

A:\ is not accessible
No ID address was found on the floppy disk.

I'll try the others, and maybe make one stab at trying Best Buy or something and seeing if they can help. Otherwise, oh well.

Additional: I got the same message on a second disk, and then the PC told me a third disk was not formatted, which it at least was some time ago. All the labels say 1996.

Additional additional: I googled the "No ID..." message and found this forum thread: http://www.daniweb.com/hardware-and-software/pc-hardware/storage/threads/22103

This appears to be a legacy problem, I guess you could say. So it is possible it's the comp and not the disk. Now I just need someone with an old comp... right.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Dear reader,

James is just bitter because he is still in Albania. Good news for him however, is that he does not have to pick spuds cause the master of the plantation took a shine to him.

Dear Reader

LOVEBOAT lies. I am successful urine merchant in Albania. Urine gives Albanian goat dung its famous flavor and taste. I make so much Euro I have almost enough for a used Yugo.

 

[lovecraft68]

Dear Reader

LOVEBOAT lies. I am successful urine merchant in Albania. Urine gives Albanian goat dung its famous flavor and taste. I make so much Euro I have almost enough for a used Yugo.

Yugo? Come on James with that kind of dough you could get a tricked out pacer!!