From: mkow1234_at_aol.com
Date: Sun Nov 13 2005 - 09:09:34 PST
November 13, 2005
Hello Newtoneers:
Last year, I found an old box of 5.25" floppy disks from my undergraduate days at the University of Detroit. These disks hold numerous notes, old term papers (History-related topics), and some of my Smithsonian research internship work. As if the challenge to recover and digitize this data was not great enough, I'm recalling that I probably used an old version of WordPerfect and a program called WordStar (This was before folks were actively developing pretty GUI programs).
I'm thinking that IF I had an old 5.25" floppy drive for a PC, and IF I could somehow connect it to a serial port on my Windows 98 desktop machine, I MIGHT be able to extract some of the data. What I'm thinking is to perhaps copy the files, change their extension to .txt or .rtf, and then extract what data I could to save for posterity.
I have no idea IF a peripheral 5.25" floppy drive ever existed, but I need one to save my data! Can anybody help? Thanks in advance.
Matt K.
Detroit, Michigan, USA
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