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Re: Apple II to IBM file transfer: answer

Bill Yancey (wbyiii@vt.edu) wrote:
> To whom it may concern:

>      I just went through the trauma of changing to IBM from Apple II.
> As a result of this experience, I needed to convert Apple files to IBM.
> Fortunately, someone had the answer for me, and I will share it 
> with you.  There is a program designed specifically to transfer files
> between Apple IIs and IBM.  Not only does it change text format  from
> Appleworks to WordPerfect and back, it will change spreadsheet
> format to Lotus and back.  The program is Cross-Works.  It was (?is)
> produced and was (?is) sold by SoftSpoken, PO Box 18343, Raliegh,
> NC 27619, 919/870-5694.  I have version 2.0, produced in Jan. 1990.
   ----snipped -----
>      If the company is no longer in business, maybe someone can talk the
> heirs into releasing the program into public domain.

It is still being sold by Quality Computers and by Softspoken.  It's 
a shame they haven't updated it lately, but I can hardly blame them. 
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