MS Word 6.0

[zenner]

I am currently using MS Word 6.0 (and have used Word for 20 years) but my new
computer comes with Word Perfect. Can I transfer/copy MS Word to the new
computer (I have the original 9 floppy disks).

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?emVubmVy?=,

I am currently using MS Word 6.0 (and have used Word for 20 years) but my new
computer comes with Word Perfect. Can I transfer/copy MS Word to the new
computer (I have the original 9 floppy disks).

Theoretically, you should be able to install from the floppy disks, assuming
your new machine has a floppy drive. If it doesn't, then there's nothing you can
do with the new machine.

If you still have a machine with a floppy drive, and it has a CD-burner or you
have a network connection to it, you could try copying the contents of the
floppies to folders then install from the folders. I think this works, although
there may be a special trick to it. You might want to ask in the more
specialized office setup newsgroup...

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[LC Killingbeck]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?emVubmVy?=,

Theoretically, you should be able to install from the floppy disks,
assuming your new machine has a floppy drive. If it doesn't, then
there's nothing you can do with the new machine.

If you still have a machine with a floppy drive, and it has a
CD-burner or you have a network connection to it, you could try
copying the contents of the floppies to folders then install from the
folders. I think this works, although there may be a special trick to
it. You might want to ask in the more specialized office setup
newsgroup...

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)


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Note that USB floppy drives are fairly cheap. Now, if only there were a
5 1/4 inch USB floppy drive, I could use more of my ancient game
software (notably, games requiring a "key disk" for copy protection).

Out of curiosity, I marked the USB floppy on one machine (Windows XP)
as "shared", and could access it via my ethernet network on another
machine (Windows 95). Another possible way to access a floppy from a
machine without a built-in floppy drive. Hmmm. Will have to try that,
next time I power up the ME machine with a built-in 5 1/4 inch drive.
Might work, without Cindy's suggestion of first copying to a folder
on the destination machine.

Back to the original poster: Try it and see if it works. I suggest
doing the physical write protect on the source disks, by the way. If
the install balks at that, select "retry" a few times - going from
ancient memory that that technique eventually worked even though
the install program wanted to write to the original disks.

Lynn Killingbeck