The Mac II dates to 1987-88 and by 1996, Apple was dealing strictly with PPC code (unless you had a Mac II from earlier days)
More important is the system software used, (System 7.xxx???). And yes, if you can find a way of getting that far back, definitely go for a PDF conversion. BTW, you might be able to find someone with an earlier Mac that used System 9.1 or so and is pretty well backward compatible. JT On Oct 21, 2013, at 11:59 AM, Bruce Ryan wrote: > Hi Andreas > > IIRC, the file dates from 1996 - around the time of mac classic and Mac II. > > Someone has offered to translate the file into a modern version of Word. If > that fails, I will try to find Office 2001, which is more likely to be on a > CD and thus avoid the floppy-drive blues. The PITA is that my floppy drive > won't read by 800K Word 4 installer floppies. > > Absolutely agree about output to PDF - if only I'd known in 1996. > > thanks indeed > > Bruce > > On 21 Oct 2013, at 17:51, Mac User #330250 <macuser330...@gmx.net> wrote: > >> ---------- Original message ---------- >> Subject: reusing my thesis >> Date: Monday, 21. October 2013 >> From: Bruce Ryan <bruce.r...@me.com> >> To: "g3-5-list@googlegroups.com" <g3-5-list@googlegroups.com> >> >>> So, is there any way of opening the Word file. >> >> Word 4… sounds like this is a Mac OS 7/8/9 Application. >> >> The best way is propably to try opening it with Office:mac 2001 or so >> because >> this should be able to read your files correctly. >> >> And if you then save it in the new format, you may be able to open it using >> Office:mac 2011… >> >> What I would do is to install Word 4/5 inside Classic on, say, the G3 Prismo >> or on 9.2 on the PowerBook G3. >> >> Printing/Saving files as PDF is always a good idea, as is saving it in a >> standard format like RTF and RTFD. >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Text_Format >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Text_Format_Directory >> >> Cheers, >> Andreas aka Mac User #330250 -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
