Back again?
Your first post stated that you had a
WORD 5 document on your SE. Now you
state it merely as 'a book'.
You didn't follow up on your first post, and
here we find the same one again.
Let's retrace our steps. Hope it helps:
Name: bjansson
Date: March 03, 2002 at 10:47:40 Pacific
Subject: Converts Apple SE Word files to
PC?
Comment:
Hello. Does anyone know how to convert
old apple SE Word 5.0 files into
something that can be read by my PC? A
friend of mine has a book on his old
apple and he can't get it off to print it. I
think I can buy some old apple floppys
though. Then transfer it over to my PX
(Windows XP, Office XP...)
Thanks!
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Try This:
Viable solution suggestions of increasing
degrees of difficulty and ridiculousness:
••Hook up a modem (even a borrowed
one, as you only need it once) to the SE
and connect to an ISP, thus facilitating
you to e-mail or FTP the document (or
pasted text) to someone of fine moral
character and responsibility. You could
upload it to a BBS via modem if that
option presents itself to you as opposed
to an ISP/internet.
••Find someone with an apple powerbook
that has a serial port. Connect a serial
cable between PB and SE modem ports.
Setup the network connection between
the 2 via appleshare. Transfer your file(s)
to the PB. You now have a mobile copy
that can be brought somewhere else for
transfer or e-mail.
I say use a powerbook because that is
the most portable computer to bring to
YOU, but the SE is a small machine so
you could actually bring the SE to
someone's desktop mac!
••Borrow a SCSI CD burner, or Zip drive,
or some type of removable storage and
copy off the file(s). Then mount that
removable on another computer (YES
there are ways to mount a MAC disk on a
PC)
••Beg, borrow, buy, or steal a printer and
print the document out. THEN run the
pages through a scanner with OCR
software on another computer.
••Setup the SE next to another computer
and manually type the thing, copying from
the text you are viewing on the SE.
