Hello,  Ed, nice talking to you.   
    EV> I was wondering if you switched from the C=128 to a IBM Compatiable   
    EV> using DOS or to one of the Microsoft Windows OS's when you retired your   
    EV> C=128.   
      
   	This was a handme-up Windows 3.1, I forget what make, but I seem to remember   
   that it was a Philips. ???   
      
    EV> MS called WE (Windows Explorer in XP) File Manager (FM) in W3.1 ,   
    EV> I can't remember if the name was WE in W95 or W98 or WME.   
      
   	They have changed that moniker again in W-8, it is now File Explorer, IIRP.   
      
    EV> Early 1984 is when I started using a C=64 PC with the C=1541 FD,   
    EV> I think the GEOS software was developed a few years later. ????   
    EV> Either the second C=64 I got or the second C=1541 FD came with a GEOS   
    EV> Disk, I can't remember which one it was included with.   
      
   	You have me beat, I started in 85. But I went hogwild, got GEOS and all the   
   peripherals that I could, 24 pin printer, Ramlink and others that allowed a   
   boot in 2 seconds. It was fun.   
      
    EV> I wanted to use the GEOS disk but I found out that GEOS wouldn't let me   
    EV> use it with a Write Protect label on THEIR floppy disk, so I didn't try   
    EV> it out for a very long time because I didn't want the floppy drive   
    EV> writing something to it and changing it where it was unuseable to me   
    EV> anymore.   
      
   	Funny, I did not have that situation, I can not remember having to have the   
   GEOS disk in place all the time. Working from Ramlink was great.   
      
    EV> I couldn't figure out why Commodore did that, the floppy disk that came   
    EV> with my first 1541 Drive could be copied and then I could use the copy,   
    EV> but GEOS said NO GO!   
      
   	It has been a few years, Ed, and my RAM does not remember that problem, it   
   was a very smooth operation here, modem and printer were very easy to use. I   
   got a 24-pin #4 so I could print our genealogy that I was working on then.   
      
    EV> I'm glad that You enjoyed using GEOS, did you have any problems while   
    EV> using it?   
    EV> And was there a FM/WE/FE type program to use in GEOS to find Files and   
    EV> Applications (such as Paint or Write) for GEOS instead of using the   
    EV> Load Quote Dollar Sign Quote Comma Eight used on the C=64 & C=128?   
      
   	Your personal RAM is indeed much better than mine or maybe I did not have   
   that problem when using a Ramlink. All PRGs were loaded instantaneously. And I   
   do not believe that its CPU was up to 1 GHz.   
      
   	Fun days. Did you have any contact with Maurice Randall the creator of Geofax   
   ? I did most of the testing on that PRG. I beat a path on my rug between the   
   C= and the fax machine going to look at the text coming in. Them were the days   
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