Mildred, Your first challenge will be to find someone in your area that has a old computer with a 5 1/4 inch disk drive and a 3.5 inch drive. Check at your closest FHC and check with people you know. Chances someone has an old computer sitting in a corner of the basement or a storage shed. It is the sort of thing that is best done locally. I have an old 286 that would do the job, but I am far away. The second challenge, once you have copied the files to a 3.5 inch diskette is to see whether they are in a format that can still be read. PAF 4 can read files from PAF 2 or 3. (PAF 2 files have to be converted by PAF 4, but it is easily done.) Once the files are in PAF 4 format, they can be read by PAF 5. Unfortunately, I don't know of anything that can use files from PAF 1. Is there any chance that the data may have been contributed to FamilySearch or other websites? If so, it might be easiest to get it from there. Bill Buchanan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mildred & Ellwood Voelker" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 8:42 PM Subject: Re: [PAF-5] 5 1/4 Floppy Question ? > Visited with a lady that has started to work on her family after many > years. The back or copy she has is the 5 1/4 floppy disk. What heop > came be given to her. > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > What can be done to save her from doing all that work again? > Mildred > in Oregon > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.21.5/1314 - Release Date: 3/5/2008 6:38 PM > >