You would have to find someone who knows something about the word proccessor that you used and what kind of format it used to saved the text. And, if anyone knows of a way it can be converted and transferred to ascii text for a computer. Was it floppy disks or tape? I don't know diddly about word processors before computers. Alfred D. Eller RootsMagic-Users-Admin@RootsWeb.com ================ ============== ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maureen S Cassidy" <maureen.s.cassidy@worldnet.att.net> To: <GEN-COMP-TIPS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 6:19 PM Subject: Re: [Gen-Comp-Tips] Music Conversions > Thanks Art. > > When I first started writing my Master's Thesis I didn't own a computer > (1997) so I put all my work on my WP. In 1998 I got my computer but soon > after had to take a long break from school. Now I'm starting back and need > that material in my computer. > > Maureen > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "dolphin213" <dolphin213@cox.net> > To: <GEN-COMP-TIPS-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 6:26 PM > Subject: Re: [Gen-Comp-Tips] Music Conversions > > > > Maureen, > > >I too have a "conversion" question (of which Roy's post reminded me). > > > >I have several floppies from my word processor which I would like to > convert > >so I can put the material on my computer. Is there any way of doing that?? > > This will not take any type of conversion process. Simply copy the files > from the floppies to your hard drive and open them with your processor > program. Or if they need editing, you can open them directly from the > floppy with your word processor, edit them and save them back to floppy or > your hard drive. > > Art

Hi Alfred, I have the material on floppy disks. I just dug them out and tried to copy a couple of them a few minutes ago but they wouldn't copy. The WP is a Brothers 1997. The floppies are just "regular" 3.5Mb DD. Maureen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alfred D. Eller" <adeller@santel.net> To: <GEN-COMP-TIPS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 9:14 PM Subject: Re: [Gen-Comp-Tips] Music Conversions You would have to find someone who knows something about the word proccessor that you used and what kind of format it used to saved the text. And, if anyone knows of a way it can be converted and transferred to ascii text for a computer. Was it floppy disks or tape? I don't know diddly about word processors before computers. Alfred D. Eller RootsMagic-Users-Admin@RootsWeb.com ================ ============== ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maureen S Cassidy" <maureen.s.cassidy@worldnet.att.net> To: <GEN-COMP-TIPS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 6:19 PM Subject: Re: [Gen-Comp-Tips] Music Conversions > Thanks Art. > > When I first started writing my Master's Thesis I didn't own a computer > (1997) so I put all my work on my WP. In 1998 I got my computer but soon > after had to take a long break from school. Now I'm starting back and need > that material in my computer. > > Maureen > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "dolphin213" <dolphin213@cox.net> > To: <GEN-COMP-TIPS-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 6:26 PM > Subject: Re: [Gen-Comp-Tips] Music Conversions > > > > Maureen, > > >I too have a "conversion" question (of which Roy's post reminded me). > > > >I have several floppies from my word processor which I would like to > convert > >so I can put the material on my computer. Is there any way of doing that?? > > This will not take any type of conversion process. Simply copy the files > from the floppies to your hard drive and open them with your processor > program. Or if they need editing, you can open them directly from the > floppy with your word processor, edit them and save them back to floppy or > your hard drive. > > Art ==== GEN-COMP-TIPS Mailing List ==== Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites of the Internet: http://www.cyndislist.com ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237

>I have the material on floppy disks. I just dug them out and tried to copy >a couple of them a few minutes ago but they wouldn't copy. The WP is a >Brothers 1997. The floppies are just "regular" 3.5Mb DD. Try to open them using notepad or Word. I would think they would be ASCII type of files, as Alfred suggested. Art

Maureen, What kind of files are they? I don't have the files I converted a few years back from a word processor after we lost our hard drive. But, I know I used MS Word to open them. They were on floppy. I remember I had to do something to the files first, then I could read them. Let me know what type they are and I'll see if I can't help. Patty At 09:14 PM 7/23/2004, you wrote: >You would have to find someone who knows something about the word proccessor >that you used and what kind of format it used to saved the text. And, if >anyone knows of a way it can be converted and transferred to ascii text for >a computer. > >Was it floppy disks or tape? > >I don't know diddly about word processors before computers. > >Alfred D. Eller >RootsMagic-Users-Admin@RootsWeb.com >================ ============== >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Maureen S Cassidy" <maureen.s.cassidy@worldnet.att.net> >To: <GEN-COMP-TIPS-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 6:19 PM >Subject: Re: [Gen-Comp-Tips] Music Conversions > > > > Thanks Art. > > > > When I first started writing my Master's Thesis I didn't own a computer > > (1997) so I put all my work on my WP. In 1998 I got my computer but soon > > after had to take a long break from school. Now I'm starting back and need > > that material in my computer. > > > > Maureen > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "dolphin213" <dolphin213@cox.net> > > To: <GEN-COMP-TIPS-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 6:26 PM > > Subject: Re: [Gen-Comp-Tips] Music Conversions > > > > > > > > Maureen, > > > > >I too have a "conversion" question (of which Roy's post reminded me). > > > > > >I have several floppies from my word processor which I would like to > > convert > > >so I can put the material on my computer. Is there any way of doing >that?? > > > > This will not take any type of conversion process. Simply copy the files > > from the floppies to your hard drive and open them with your processor > > program. Or if they need editing, you can open them directly from the > > floppy with your word processor, edit them and save them back to floppy or > > your hard drive. > > > > Art > > > >==== GEN-COMP-TIPS Mailing List ==== >Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites of the Internet: >http://www.cyndislist.com > >============================== >Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration >Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237