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Mac to PC conversion
Name: dovebear Date: June 21, 2005 at 00:49:22 Pacific OS: Win 98/SE CPU/Ram: 256
Comment:
I have floppies made on Mac about 10 yerars ago. I would like to convert them to PC, in my PC. Is there a cheap program that would read them in my PC and convert?
Name: hiho Date: June 21, 2005 at 01:27:39 Pacific
Reply:
http://www.jagshouse.com/Macs_and_PCs.html
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Response Number 2
Name: Coos Bay Lumber Date: June 21, 2005 at 06:16:56 Pacific
Reply:
Years ago, I bought Conversions Plus by Dataviz. I was communicating with a fellow 1000 miles away and we were mailing back and forth Pagemaker files on a floppy disk. It will transfer "compatible" files between Mac and Microsoft computers. There were a few exceptions, in that certain files would go from Word for the Mac to Word 2 or something. It will not run, nor transfer software or running programs. Only the output files.
I got an update to Conversions plus a few years afterwards. Oddly, it would not allow conversions of earlier software. I could not go from the Word for Mac files to Word 6 file format. Thus, the original software was set up in one hole of the computer and the update was in another. If your files are a good ten years old, you then need the version that was compatible with the Windows 3.1 O.S. After converting from Mac, into a P.C. format, then convert again to a more modern version. Takes me two steps.
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