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<p><font face="Calibri">I also use Textpad in situations like this
where the original editor is not available. Textpad can open
anything, and has great macro options to help clean up any
files.</font></p>
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<div dir="ltr">It sounds like the first issue you're having is
being able to read the disks. Have you tried them on your
friend's external floppy? They have to be in a format where the
computer can recognize the information. As an example, the 3.5
floppies of early Macs, PCs, and the external drive I had for my
long-ago Tandy 100 were not cross compatible.
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<div>Once you find a machine that can read the disks (assuming
they are actually still good), here are three things can try:</div>
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<li>Install the Professional Write program and see if you
can export text or RTF files</li>
<li>Use Word's Open Any File option and expect to see the
raw text surrounded top and bottom by some code garbage
you can get rid of</li>
<li>Get a copy of Nisus Writer, a Mac word processing
program that has extremely powerful macro and file
conversion capabilities. I believe Nisus is still in
business and no longer charging for the product. See if it
will open the files.</li>
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PM Deborah Chandler via Hidden-discuss <<a
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<p
style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span
style="font-kerning:none"><font size="4" face="times
new roman, serif">Hi folks,</font></span></p>
<p
style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(26,26,26);min-height:16px"><font
size="4" face="times new roman, serif"><span
style="font-kerning:none"></span><br>
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<p
style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span
style="font-kerning:none"><font size="4" face="times
new roman, serif">A colleague needs some files
transferred. Here’s what he says:</font></span></p>
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style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span
style="font-kerning:none"><font size="4" face="times
new roman, serif"><br>
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<p
style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span
style="font-kerning:none"><font size="4" face="times
new roman, serif"><i>“The 3 1/2 in floppy disks
have data from all my Speeches and Reports. They
were written on an IBM computer of 80's and 90's
vintage where data storage on the Hard Drive was
different. I have not been able to read the
disks, my computer telling me they are corrupt.
This is not so. They are written in
Professional Write and need be converted into
Microsoft Word.”</i></font></span></p>
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<p
style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(26,26,26);min-height:16px"><font
size="4" face="times new roman, serif"><span
style="font-kerning:none"></span><br>
</font></p>
<p
style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span
style="font-kerning:none"><font size="4" face="times
new roman, serif">He also has the original install
(floppy) disks for Professional Write as well as an
external floppy disk drive with USB connection.</font></span></p>
<p
style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(26,26,26);min-height:16px"><font
size="4" face="times new roman, serif"><span
style="font-kerning:none"></span><br>
</font></p>
<p
style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span
style="font-kerning:none"><font size="4" face="times
new roman, serif">Does someone have the
equipment/software needed to do such a transfer, or
do you have leads to someone who could? I did a
quick online search to find FileMerlin can do such a
transfer from Professional Write to MS Word, </font></span><span
style="color:rgb(68,68,68)">(See <a
href="http://www.file-convert.com/flmn.htm"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.file-convert.com/flmn.htm</a>) </span><span
style="font-family:"times new
roman",serif;font-size:large">but I don’t know
yet whether one would still need an older computer in
order to even open the original files. (and anyone who
has known me for a while, knows I am a Mac user and
not so tech savvy; so I am the liaison here, just
wanting to help a friend in need.)</span></p>
<p
style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span
style="font-family:"times new
roman",serif;font-size:large"><br>
</span></p>
<p
style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span
style="font-family:"times new
roman",serif;font-size:large">The floppies are
currently in the Boston area; depending on where help
is offered, I can facilitate the delivery within a
reasonable driving distance. </span></p>
<p
style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(26,26,26);min-height:16px"><font
size="4" face="times new roman, serif"><span
style="font-kerning:none"></span><br>
</font></p>
<p
style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span
style="font-kerning:none"><font size="4" face="times
new roman, serif">Thanks in advance,</font></span></p>
<p
style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><span
style="font-kerning:none"><font size="4" face="times
new roman, serif">Deb</font></span></p>
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