the ultimate dinovet question

RE: the ultimate dinovet question

Sarah Keir — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 19:55:26 GMT

If you need some help, then there are some very knowledgeable geeks at this place. They might be able to help with old hardwear or teach you some tricks to keep it going?

http://www.tnmoc.org/

RE: the ultimate dinovet question

patrick murphy — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 13:23:56 GMT

we use that for ordering, but have relied on the floopy disc machine purely for client details and printing out on our even older printer the labels. it is that data and function that are being missed.

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Martin Atkinson — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 13:01:08 GMT

I had a clear out a few months ago and chucked a load of floppy discs, the really floppy ones as well as some in a hard case. At least its not so old you're using a tape cassette!

We have used Vetcom from its first days as just an ordering system and are now using Vetcom Open as our PMS which is supported and updated on-line. It is quite sophisticated in its own way, it has its gremlins as do all systems but tech support is pretty good.

RE: the ultimate dinovet question

Anthony Todd — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 23:13:16 GMT

[quote user="Clive Ansell"]The push in square case is made of hard plastic, you're quite right. However the disc to which the data is written, contained within the case, is indeed floppy. [/quote]

Yes, took an old one apart, you are quite right they are floppy but the original ones weren't in the hard case so were really "floppy".

RE: the ultimate dinovet question

Clive Ansell — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 22:00:34 GMT

[quote user="Anthony Todd"]I don't think you actually mean a "floopy disc" you mean a push -in square plastic thing with a revolving disc in side....[/quote]

[quote user="Evelyn Barbour-Hill"](Who the bell one-starred Anthony? He's quite correct)[/quote]

The push in square case is made of hard plastic, you're quite right. However the disc to which the data is written, contained within the case, is indeed floppy.

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Evelyn Barbour-Hill — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 20:53:07 GMT

[quote user="patrick murphy"] NVS claim to have just one floppy left and will not let it out of their possession so I must send my paleo computer to them,[/quote]

Why can't they just copy it on to another floppy? Lack of a blank one? I could let you have a blank one.

(Who the bell one-starred Anthony? He's quite correct)

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Anthony Todd — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 19:24:59 GMT

[quote user="Bob Russell"]Updates were sent monthly on a floppy disc![/quote]

I don't think you actually mean a "floopy disc" you mean a push -in square plastic thing with a revolving disc in side....

A floppy disc, not that even I am old enough to use one really was floppy, sort of like a small flexible round plastiky sheet of thin brown plastic which was so thin it was "Floppy"........

It's the one in the sleeve on the left, not the one called a "floppy disc" on the right......

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk

http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Wordsworth-10-Pack-of-Flexible-8-Disks-Single-Sided-Single-Density-128-Byte-/321946085431

They were 8 inches in diameter!!

RE: the ultimate dinovet question

patrick murphy — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 19:24:28 GMT

that would be fantastic. NVS claim to have just one floppy left and will not let it out of their possession so I must send my paleo computer to them, and I am not sure that it is up to the stress of travel.thanks

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Joyce Whitehead — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 19:15:34 GMT

We were on vetcom till December 2015 but I don't think any floppy discs survived. I'll look tomorriw, there is a very deep drawer in one desk....

(and I know I'm a dinovet but try to stay a modvet in treatment regimes)

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Bob Russell — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 17:51:15 GMT

Yup! VetCom was an ordering system for NVS. VetCom Plus was a basic PMS, actually pretty good in its day!

Updates were sent monthly on a floppy disc! Pretty sure it did not connect to the internet except to place an order!

RE: the ultimate dinovet question

Utlendigur — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 17:37:39 GMT

I used Vetcom for years where I used to work - up until I think 2013 (Does that officially make me a dinovet!). It was (maybe still is) a practice management system from NVS. Have you tried contacting NVS?

Have you still got a computer that takes floppy discs - I thought they went extinct many years ago

RE: the ultimate dinovet question

Iain Richards — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 17:03:22 GMT

Wasn't it an ordering system - vetcom, via NVS? Floppy disk - 41/2 inch or the real floppy 7 inches? DOS is the operating system - MS-DOS, still behind windows PCs

RE: the ultimate dinovet question

Michael Woodhouse — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 15:55:13 GMT

Have you tried extinguishing the boiler, letting the steam pressure down and then relighting it?