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Software Hunt

Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 11:23 am
by AriX
Not going as well as I had hoped. Just got a message back from an ex-UVSG employee saying that although he did find some Prevue Guide floppies, he had formatted ALL of them at one point or another to use them for storage (DAMMIT :p), and the other ones haven't gotten back to me...

Anyone think they have any leads by any chance? I haven't given up, but it could be a while before we locate another version of the software. Maybe I'll go through LinkedIn again and send out another round of emails to some other people.

Re: Software Hunt

Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 3:42 pm
by AriX
WOW, OK. Here's an update:

"We have allot of the channel guide computers. probably 50-60 of them. I'm not even sure which company the are from. We have about 2000 channels of SMATV headend we are trying to liquidate.... give me a call"

50-60? Damn. Let's hope these are are Prevue/TV Guide/EPG systems :D

Re: Software Hunt

Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 3:54 pm
by AriX
AriX wrote:WOW, OK. Here's an update:

"We have allot of the channel guide computers. probably 50-60 of them. I'm not even sure which company the are from. We have about 2000 channels of SMATV headend we are trying to liquidate.... give me a call"

50-60? Damn. Let's hope these are are Prevue/TV Guide/EPG systems :D
Ahhhhh dammit. These are apparently all Windows NT-based Zap2it channel (which I didn't know existed) and Teleguide systems. Nothing TV Guide related, even modern TV Guide equipment.

Re: Software Hunt

Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 4:28 pm
by tin
booo!!! gutted :)

Re: Software Hunt

Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2010 10:49 pm
by AriX
Possible developments on this front...

Re: Software Hunt

Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 4:09 am
by tin
AriX wrote:Possible developments on this front...
Ahh go on, do tell :)

Re: Software Hunt

Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 9:44 am
by AriX
tin wrote:
AriX wrote:Possible developments on this front...
Ahh go on, do tell :)
Nothing TOO exciting, and it could be a few days.

Re: Software Hunt

Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 10:16 am
by tin
Ahh go on, tell us what it MIGHT be, and I promise not to be too disappointed if it doesn't pan out :)

Re: Software Hunt

Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 3:06 pm
by AriX
tin wrote:Ahh go on, tell us what it MIGHT be, and I promise not to be too disappointed if it doesn't pan out :)
Possibly a different dump of the Prevue software :) - may be the same version we have though :/
Possibly also hardware.

Re: Software Hunt

Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2010 4:38 pm
by SchalaAshtear
Anyone know if we'll ever find a Sneak Prevue disk? I'm personally interested in that somewhat, too =P

The discovery of the Prevue Guide disk (albeit a late TV Guide one) sure caught my attention when I saw the post about it over at the Sonic Retro forums. =)