Re: After 20 Years, I'm This Close To Finally Escaping Data Rot -Thoughts?

["Jayson Smith" <ihatespamratguynospamplease@insightbb.spamsucks.com>]

Do you have AceWriter disks? If so, and they're not copy protected (I'm 
blind, and not familiar with that program) you should be able to transfer 
the program disk(s) to the PC and run them in an emulator.
Jayson

"Dave Rawson" <TheGuy@_Remove_This_Part_DRawson.Com> wrote in message 
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>D Finnigan wrote:
>> I bought my first Super Serial Card from DigitalDinos.
>> http://digitaldinos.com/DigitalDinos/Pages/ForSale/AppleII/docAppleII.htm
>>
>> Great pricing, and I highly recommend that site!
>
> They're currently out right now.  I'll keep an eye peeled.
>
> Thanks to everyone for their encouragement and suggestions.
>
> Hopefully within a couple of weeks the purchase will show up and I'll try 
> and keep folks (if interested) posted on how I do with recovering files 
> from 20 year-old floppies.
>
> Assuming I have some measure of success getting the disks transfered over, 
> then what?
>
> I set up some sort of Apple emulator to run an AceWriter/Magic 
> Writer/ASCII text editor of some kind?
>
> Is this best done under Windows (I have 32-bit XP or Vista and 64-bit 
> Windows) or Linux (I'm a newb) of some kind?
>
> Thanks again, this has been a long time coming.
>
> Fingers crossed in The Dalles, Oregon...
>
>
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