Old Dive Log: Win 3.1

I found an old floppy with about 25 dives on it IIRC. It was saved in a
shareware program named DIVELOG for Windows 3.1
I have long since disposed of the computer which had the program on it and
although I did have the name of the producer of the program, I can't contact
him ( it's only been 13 years or so)
Any ideas how to open this disk ?

R

"Rudy" <NoSpam@no-onehome.net> wrote in message
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>I found an old floppy with about 25 dives on it IIRC. It was saved in a
>shareware program named DIVELOG for Windows 3.1
> I have long since disposed of the computer which had the program on it and
> although I did have the name of the producer of the program, I can't
> contact him ( it's only been 13 years or so)
> Any ideas how to open this disk ?

Yes. Slide open the metal "thingy". The part of the seam that's thus
revealed isn't sealed as tight as the rest of the disk and you should be
able to get a fingernail in there. Replace fingernail with edge of flathead
screwdriver and twist.

"Rudy" wrote in message news:TLk3f.166753$1i.85388@pd7tw2no...
> Any ideas how to open this disk ?

Pocket knife?

Seriously though, that's one of the problems with using 3rd party
software... If the company was still in business, you might still be out of
luck since they might have changed the format on the current version of
their software... Back on my Navy contract with Lockheed, I had a machine
that had 3 or 4 different versions of Visio installed on it since each
version would only read the current version and the previous version of the
files... Hell, even if you had the original disk for the software, you still
might be out of luck since it might not run under a current version of
Windoze...

Rudy wrote:
> I found an old floppy with about 25 dives on it IIRC. It was saved in a
> shareware program named DIVELOG for Windows 3.1
> I have long since disposed of the computer which had the program on it and
> although I did have the name of the producer of the program, I can't contact
> him ( it's only been 13 years or so)
> Any ideas how to open this disk ?
>
> R

FWIW if it is a shareware program from that long ago there is a very
good chance that the data has been stored in some sort of flat text
file. In which ever version of windows you have make sure your explorer
settings will NOT hide any files or file extentions then try opening
the different files on the disc in notepad.

If you have no luck zip it up and e-mail it to me .. I'll see if I can
extract anything useful. [ajames54(at)hotmail(dot)com]

"Geo" <ghmorris@candlelight.ca> wrote in message
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>
> Adam Helberg wrote:
> >
> > In some places you need to show a log to be able to dive, and I don't
think a
> > computer printout would do it.
> >
> Adam, have you ever experienced a place that really wanted to see logs?
>
>
> I know a heck of a lot of divers that don't log their dives, including
> me. I quite about 350 as it simply wasn't worth doing. I'm not flying
> an airplane, just jumping in the water and swimming around.

I download mine, but that's it.

Somehow in Atlanta I lost my cable for the Vyper, and I've been bumping
dives off it since last year.

>
> So far, I haven't run into anyone that you couldn't show a card too,
> shoot the shit for a few minutes so they realized you had at least half
> a clue, then get on the boat.
>
> I'm interested in your contrary experiences.
>
> Geo
>

Scott wrote:
>
> St. Thomas to Agamemnon, I have only had to show my OW card a couple times,
> and my other cards once.
>
Exactly my point. Experience comes across very quickly, logs or no
logs. I just carry cave and trimix. One gets me fills and boats, other
gets basic access to caves.

This may be a mistake from a liability perspective if there was ever an
accident on the boat. OW might be safer.

Shouldn't be an issue, but lawyers gotta eat too.

Geo

"Geo" <ghmorris@candlelight.ca> wrote in message
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> I know a heck of a lot of divers that don't log their dives, including
> me. I quite about 350 as it simply wasn't worth doing. I'm not flying
> an airplane, just jumping in the water and swimming around.
>
> So far, I haven't run into anyone that you couldn't show a card too,
> shoot the shit for a few minutes so they realized you had at least half
> a clue, then get on the boat.
>
> I'm interested in your contrary experiences.

St. Thomas to Agamemnon, I have only had to show my OW card a couple times,
and my other cards once.

"Grumman-581" <grumman(five)(eight)(one)@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Rudy" wrote in message news:TLk3f.166753$1i.85388@pd7tw2no...
>> Any ideas how to open this disk ?
>
> Pocket knife?
>
> Seriously though, that's one of the problems with using 3rd party
> software... If the company was still in business, you might still be out of
> luck since they might have changed the format on the current version of
> their software... Back on my Navy contract with Lockheed, I had a machine
> that had 3 or 4 different versions of Visio installed on it since each
> version would only read the current version and the previous version of the
> files... Hell, even if you had the original disk for the software, you still
> might be out of luck since it might not run under a current version of
> Windoze...

It's also a problem with keeping your scuba log on a computer. It's a solution to a
problem that does not exist.

In some places you need to show a log to be able to dive, and I don't think a
computer printout would do it.

Adam

"Geo" wrote in message
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> I know a heck of a lot of divers that don't log their dives, including
> me. I quite about 350 as it simply wasn't worth doing. I'm not flying
> an airplane, just jumping in the water and swimming around.

Hell, I'm a pilot and don't even log all my flights...

"Adam Helberg" wrote in message
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> It's also a problem with keeping your scuba log on a computer. It's a
solution to a
> problem that does not exist.
>
> In some places you need to show a log to be able to dive, and I don't
think a
> computer printout would do it.

My solution to the problem is to just not keep a log... If it's truly a
memorable dive, I'll consider putting it on a web page...