need program to read info from my old word processor floppy

Knowing more about the disk may help. It may be possible to use some operating system to dump the data off the floppy. It may have to be dumped raw like using cat /dev/floppy/raw or something like that. Best would be that they are in some format that can still be read. A Pit Bull is like a gun you can pet. And there is no safety on it.

thanks. i'll give more info in refernce to these floppies. maybe you can help me to get a program or device to read them. i have worthy info in them that i need to copy. thanks.

Realize, also, that if the floppies are very old or were created with an old word-processor (the hardware kind), that there may be little chance of retrieving them. It would help to know specifically what created them, if possible... "Channeling the spirit of jboy..."

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Without knowing what format, it is hard to tell, but Openoffice.org (free download) can open any office type document format that I know of under nearly any operating system. Openoffice can resave in any modern office format so if it can open it, you are all set. Of course, if it is a truly proprietary format and one that died many years ago, the chances are pretty slim. You have to be a little bit crazy to keep you from going insane.

MS Word has the ability to read text from any file. You will lose any formatting but at least you wont have to retype it all. Try opening the file in notepad. If you can see any readable text MS Word should be able to recover it. If is just a jumble of unreadable characters then you are going to have problems unless you know exactly what created the file in the first place. Stuart