Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]John: I know what you mean about those old Kodachromes. I have all my mother's old slides from the 50s. I hope to find the 60s and 70s in one of my deceased parents' boxes now in my attic. Please scan a few of your father's slides and share them with us if you get a chance. If you can read the 5.25" disks, or if you know someone who can, copy those files to a more modern media ASAP. I did this a long time ago. I still keep an old 5.25" disk around so I can occasionally help a friend. I just plug it into the floppy drive connectors on my 7 year-old computer. The old WordStar format is trivial to make readable in a simple text editor. All you need is a program that strips the 8th bit from each character. Presto, all the words are plain ASCII. Such programs are available for free online at shareware/freeware sites. I'd urge you to do this now, while hardware for 5.25 disks is still around. It's your heritage, after all. --Peter John wrote: >BTW, I could also read many of my father's sermons. At least those that >he wrote on his typewriter. Quite a few are on 5 and a quarter disks and >were created in Wordstar. Will I ever read them? I can't honestly say.