Old Text format...

[John O]

We're taking an old, old, old video and creating a new presentation from the
same content. As it turns out, I got lucky and located a 5¼-inch floppy with
a copy of the voice-over text. I recovered the file, which has a date of Nov
1989. Cool!

I believe this is a Wordstar file, version 4, maybe 5. Does anyone have a
converter available? If you do, can I email you a 64k file for conversion to
text or Word or whatever?

 

[TAJ Simmons]

John

You may be able to do it yourself....see
http://www.wordstar.org/wordstar/pages/convert_faq.htm

If you convert the wordstar text to ASCII then most software can import it.

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
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[Echo S]

We're taking an old, old, old video and creating a new presentation from the
same content. As it turns out, I got lucky and located a 5¼-inch floppy with
a copy of the voice-over text. I recovered the file, which has a date of Nov
1989. Cool!

I believe this is a Wordstar file, version 4, maybe 5. Does anyone have a
converter available? If you do, can I email you a 64k file for conversion to
text or Word or whatever?

Wow. I remember using WordStar in college, complete with a dot-matrix
printer. I was the envy of so many of my friends, because I could
actually get WordStar to do what I wanted it to!

Thanks for that little trip down nostalgia lane, John.

 

[John O]

Wow. I remember using WordStar in college, complete with a dot-matrix

printer.

LOL, I'm just amazed the big floppy was still OK. And that the old 486
worked, and when was the last time you typed "b:" for anything?

Turns out the file is something else and we don't know what, so we're
scanning the dot-matrix (9-pin!) printout that accompanied the disk, and
running it through OCR.

John O

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Wordstar....on the old CPM machines......CTRL-G to backspace....old times!

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