[Hidden-tech] A Tricky Challenge Š

[Rikk Desgres]

Steven, 

I have a few old Macs in storage, but I¹m not sure I have MacWrite. I think
I may have ClarisWorks, which may or may not open the files. At least I
might be able to get the files off the floppy. Give me a call if an easier
solution does not come your way.

Rikk


on 6/9/08 10:45 AM, Steven Solomon at ssol at well.com wrote:

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> I've got a challenge for the really geeky Mac pack-rats out there. I just
> moved and ran across a long lost micro floppy with some documents from roughly
> 9/90 to 9/95. They are likely created in MacWrite, MacWrite II, and MacWrite
> Pro. The disc is double sided, but not HDD, and drives that will read this
> ancient and intermediary format are pretty rare. Somewhere in my piles of
> unpacked boxes are the original applications discs, but I'm not sure I'll come
> up with them any time soon.
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> So, what I seem to need is somebody with a really old Mac, likely able to run
> OS8 or before, and an ancient microfloppy drive. With that set of tools, I
> figure we can convert these files to RTF or plain text. YES, Dancer Computers,
> and others no longer have the tools. Most of the folks at these places are too
> young to even remember MacWrite.
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> So, if you know anybody that can help with this problem, pass the info along,
> or at least enjoy this stroll down memory lane to the days when MacWrite was a
> revelation.
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> Thanks!
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