applicious
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Howdy, 68kMLA-ers:
REQUEST: Xfer data from old ][e-format 5.25" disks to modern files.
BACKGROUND: Back in the day, my family cut its teeth on the digital age with a ][e. I used it mostly for word processing (before that, we called it "writing"), for which we had AppleWriter. (It wasn't until the Mac came along that I realized that my intense interest in control-character font manipulation in AppleWriter meant that I really wanted to do desktop publishing... but that hadn't been invented yet.)
Sooo, I've got these six 5.25" floppies I've been lugging around for years, usually forgetting I have them, that I now want to xfer to my current Apple: iMac G5 (iSight 17"). I have read elsewhere that this could be possible, but may involve several steps, one of which I've done: I downloaded a ][e emulator. So back to the first steps: getting the files off these floppies (assuming they're still even viable after all these years).
REQUEST: Can someone with a ][, preferably local-ish to me (outside Boston), attempt to read my disks and then turn them into disk images and then either email me the images or burn them to CD? I will pay for this service, of course. Nothing particularly valuable on the disks, but I'm hoping to consolidate old writing into modern formats in one place.
Bonus if you also have AppleWriter and can convert the AppleWriter files (most, if not all the files are AppleWriter files, as I recall) to text files and send me those. It might just be fun to use the emulator on my iMac, but since I don't have AppleWriter to load into it, I don't know that I can do much at all anyway. What I want is the data in a modern file format.
Cheers,
Ben
REQUEST: Xfer data from old ][e-format 5.25" disks to modern files.
BACKGROUND: Back in the day, my family cut its teeth on the digital age with a ][e. I used it mostly for word processing (before that, we called it "writing"), for which we had AppleWriter. (It wasn't until the Mac came along that I realized that my intense interest in control-character font manipulation in AppleWriter meant that I really wanted to do desktop publishing... but that hadn't been invented yet.)
Sooo, I've got these six 5.25" floppies I've been lugging around for years, usually forgetting I have them, that I now want to xfer to my current Apple: iMac G5 (iSight 17"). I have read elsewhere that this could be possible, but may involve several steps, one of which I've done: I downloaded a ][e emulator. So back to the first steps: getting the files off these floppies (assuming they're still even viable after all these years).
REQUEST: Can someone with a ][, preferably local-ish to me (outside Boston), attempt to read my disks and then turn them into disk images and then either email me the images or burn them to CD? I will pay for this service, of course. Nothing particularly valuable on the disks, but I'm hoping to consolidate old writing into modern formats in one place.
Bonus if you also have AppleWriter and can convert the AppleWriter files (most, if not all the files are AppleWriter files, as I recall) to text files and send me those. It might just be fun to use the emulator on my iMac, but since I don't have AppleWriter to load into it, I don't know that I can do much at all anyway. What I want is the data in a modern file format.
Cheers,
Ben
