transfer data from 'old w/processer'

Having saved a floppy disk in ASCII at 720 k on a Smith Corona PWP 3600 (old fashioned word processor)my computer cant read it in A drive ..............HELP nibor

 

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Hi Nibor: Just a stab in the dark here. You could try going to www.notetab.com/ see if their Lite(FREE) version will read those files after downloading & installing. I've got it & it says it will read them. Hth, enjoy, George.

 

nibor - if you can open the floppy but simply can't deal with the contents of the files on it, then the suggestion from gruss will do fine. I like the notetab lite app. Way better than the notepad that microsoft provides.

If your PC can't deal with the floppy at all, you have a problem. Floppy drives are horrible about having their read/write head going a little out of alignment. Not a problem on the original machine since it reads the stuff from where it wrote it. But another PC without the alignment issue may not be able to "see" any of the data on the floppy. If that is your situation, your only hope is to try the floppy in a variety of PCs in hopes that one can read the disk or to get the disk drive on the Smith Corona set properly and copy files to it again - provided they are stored somewhere else.

Otherwise, if the documents are important to you, print them and scan them using software that can handle them as text rather than a picture (OCR or similar) and then use the results of your scan.