Three Requests, One Of Which You Can't Help With.
1) Dear PADI Diving Society:
I already renewed my subscription. You sent me that nice duffel bag, remember? I got it Saturday. It's the third one you've sent in the past three years. You wanted me to renew early so that you wouldn't have to send more paper in the mail. More paper == wasted == bad for the environment.
So, then, why did you send me get another reminder to renew my subscription as well as a separate mailing thanking me for renewing and oh why don't you renew for another year? Please coordinate your computer systems better, okay? Thanks.
2) I'm wanting to save some voice mails from my phone, but I don't want to pay Verizon a lot of money to do so. Can someone recommend a good Windows dialer program that's A) Free; B) Isn't Spy/Malware and C) allows someone to use the keypad during the dialing program so that I can enter in my pin number and trigger the proper voice menu commands?
3) My dad is looking to get rid of the old 386 PC that I used during college. On that hard drive is a bunch of my old files, including fanfic I downloaded, saved E-mails -- none of it is vital to my existence, but it is a snapshot of my digital life for about 6 years. The problem is the battery in it is dead and it doesn't want to bootup properly. I think if I had DOS on 3.5" disk, I could get it up and running. However, I don't have DOS. The machine has no CD-ROM drive, either. Suggestions on how to get my data off it, including but not limited to a way for me to get DOS on 3.5" disk?
EDIT: I should've included this before -- I popped open the chassis a while back, and I saw the drive type didn't look like normal IDE, otherwise I would have used my hard drive enclosure. (That thing saved my butt a few years ago when my desktop hard drive bit the dust.) It's an old Tandy 4000, and I don't know what hard drive style it is. But it doesn't look like IDE, unless I'm misremembering. It just looked a hell of a lot bigger than a normal IDE drive.
I already renewed my subscription. You sent me that nice duffel bag, remember? I got it Saturday. It's the third one you've sent in the past three years. You wanted me to renew early so that you wouldn't have to send more paper in the mail. More paper == wasted == bad for the environment.
So, then, why did you send me get another reminder to renew my subscription as well as a separate mailing thanking me for renewing and oh why don't you renew for another year? Please coordinate your computer systems better, okay? Thanks.
2) I'm wanting to save some voice mails from my phone, but I don't want to pay Verizon a lot of money to do so. Can someone recommend a good Windows dialer program that's A) Free; B) Isn't Spy/Malware and C) allows someone to use the keypad during the dialing program so that I can enter in my pin number and trigger the proper voice menu commands?
3) My dad is looking to get rid of the old 386 PC that I used during college. On that hard drive is a bunch of my old files, including fanfic I downloaded, saved E-mails -- none of it is vital to my existence, but it is a snapshot of my digital life for about 6 years. The problem is the battery in it is dead and it doesn't want to bootup properly. I think if I had DOS on 3.5" disk, I could get it up and running. However, I don't have DOS. The machine has no CD-ROM drive, either. Suggestions on how to get my data off it, including but not limited to a way for me to get DOS on 3.5" disk?
EDIT: I should've included this before -- I popped open the chassis a while back, and I saw the drive type didn't look like normal IDE, otherwise I would have used my hard drive enclosure. (That thing saved my butt a few years ago when my desktop hard drive bit the dust.) It's an old Tandy 4000, and I don't know what hard drive style it is. But it doesn't look like IDE, unless I'm misremembering. It just looked a hell of a lot bigger than a normal IDE drive.