[dba-Tech] Old, Old Software

Rocky,
I dont know what the TI-8000 Professional is, but if it is one of the PCs 
which TI developed i the 80-s, you may be less lucky than you hope.
I remember that TI did have a 'better' technical solution, i.e., larger 
memory (768? vs 640), but therefore they had to rewrite all software, 
including DOS (which was done in Brazil). I had such machine in 1989/90. 
Pretty soon they gave up as they found thy would never be able to win this 
fight against Microsoft and Intel.
So, if it is this family, you might be better off rewriting the application 
to run on todays PCs.
much luck
Lembit

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software" <rockysmolin at bchacc.com>
To: "List" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2007 1:36 AM
Subject: [dba-Tech] Old, Old Software


> Dear List:
>
> I'm trying to help a company that uses a product called COMPACT II, an N/C
> programming language that runs on a TI-8000 Professional, I think.  An old
> 8-bit box, anyway.  (BTW, I remember this language from my UNDERGRADUATE
> days - like when computers were still steam powered.)
>
> Anyway, this old box is starting to get shaky and so they are, too.  If it
> goes out on them, they're in deep yogurt.
>
> So they sent me the disks to see if it could be loaded onto a more moderne
> machine (i.e., Pentium class).  What I see on those disks is no .EXE files
> but a lot of .CMD files, which I *think* are the executables.
>
> If those are the program files, is there an 8-bit emulator out there that
> could run this stuff out of a DOS window maybe? OR are they SOL?
>
> MTIA,
>
> Rocky
>
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