I am looking for a remodel/ room addition schedule program. I had a great one but my new laptop does not accept 5-1/4” floppy disk. Addition is a 300k 1400 sq. ft. full basement. It should take 6 months to complete. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Tim
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You should be able to find a friend with a desk top who could copy your floppy disk onto media your laptop to read. No need to learn a new program.
It is going to be hard to find anyone with a 5.25" floppy. It is hard enough to find a machine made in the last 5 years or so with any diskette drive.
Maybe a PC shop or someone like Office depot/max
Ya gotta question whether a program delivered on floppy will even run on a "modern" computer.
If you are running XP, there is a freeware program called DOSBOX that creates a DOS environment within XP that will run just about anything from that era.
Altermately you could just boot a DOS system on a floppy or a thumb drive and be running real DOS.
I have a DOS thumb drive that I use when I want to run my old aps. You can still format all of a 2 gig thumb drive FAT 16 and have more disk space that a DOS writer could even imagine.
When you run a DOS ap that was written for a 16mz PC it runs like a scalded dog on a 2.8 gz PC. Unfortunately it does not really see most of your memory but it also does not miss it.