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I have a whole bunch of files from my parents old SE/30 that ive been transferring from machine to machine since the 80s the ones ive been able to check (p much only hypercard in vmac & pict files in graphicconverter) have had intact resource forks, and they are all right now on a hfs+ drive so all that should hopefully still be good, though not very future-proof theres a whole bunch of files that are made with i think maybe MacWrite II or MacWrite Pro II? something like that. ive googled around and some time ago i found a lovely perl library that could extract text, except its p much as effective as running strings on the combined data & resource forks and just loving around with that until it reads as you remember however a bunch of them have embedded pictures, so extracting the text only isnt optimal how do yospos
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punt that trash into the garbage can you little horder bitch
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rude for sure some if it is like little stories my sister wrote when she was learning to write, that can safely be deleted, but there are also important things like a job applications that my dad considered sending off but never did which are important!!!
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Nov 29, 2014 09:42
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sheepshaver and an old copy of clarisworks
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nice, clarisworks reads those?
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Nov 29, 2014 09:47
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i think you will need version 5 or older so good luck
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you'll probably find that you'll have to do more "reconstructing" of your files than converting though
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Nov 29, 2014 09:54
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Fax Sender posted:you'll probably find that you'll have to do more "reconstructing" of your files than converting though as long as i can pull out the pict resources and the text in more or less intact parts, layout is secondary
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Nov 29, 2014 09:57
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i keep all my job applications in a scrapbook OP
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Nov 29, 2014 11:51
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the scrapbook in os 7 was pretty ownage
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Nov 29, 2014 12:05
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i used to use a mac program called "file juicer" have you tried that
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A Wheezy Steampunk posted:i used to use a mac program called "file juicer" have you tried that wish we could juice you're posts
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Snapchat A Titty posted:as long as i can pull out the pict resources and the text in more or less intact parts, layout is secondary Wish your parents had pulled out
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Nov 29, 2014 16:42
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just buy this thing and keep the files on it
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Nov 29, 2014 16:56
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use basilisk ii and system 7. the actual programs the files were written with are very easy to find
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if u purchased or used any mac b4 the intel switch its indicitive of an extremely broken cognitive process and fatal levels of fail, OP. i suiggest you get your final affairs in order as the reaper surely cometh
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Nov 29, 2014 18:44
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i don't need this but it is within driving distance.
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Nov 29, 2014 18:48
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Captain Foo posted:wish we could juice you're posts  Smythe posted:if u purchased or used any mac b4 the intel switch its indicitive of an extremely broken cognitive process and fatal levels of fail, OP. i suiggest you get your final affairs in order as the reaper surely cometh risc is good cisc is bad
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Nov 29, 2014 20:08
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mac os 9 looked better than windows 98
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Captain Foo posted:wish we could juice you're posts Don Lapre posted:Wish your parents had pulled out *leans back deeply into eames lounger and lights pipe*
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carry on then posted:system 7 looked better than windows 98
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os 9 is the cleanest looking os and i have never encountered a snappier os since
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Smythe posted:if u purchased or used any mac b4 the intel switch its indicitive of an extremely broken cognitive process and fatal levels of fail, OP. i suiggest you get your final affairs in order as the reaper surely cometh
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Fax Sender posted:os 9 is the cleanest looking os and i have never encountered a snappier os since lol
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nemesis
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pram posted:*leans back deeply into eames lounger and lights pipe* 
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lmao greenpos
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A Wheezy Steampunk posted:
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Snapchat A Titty posted:theres a whole bunch of files that are made with i think maybe MacWrite II or MacWrite Pro II? something like that. I'm pretty sure there were (DataViz? not sure) converters for lots of these formats available that would work with File Exchange on MacOS 9 or earlier, so you could try to open them in another app on that OS and see if they convert to its format, then export or convert on save to something like RTF. even Microsoft Word compatibility isn't forever, Word 5.1 for Mac (or earlier) documents evidently can't be opened with modern word on any platform. but RTF has been stable for decades at this point, and might even be able to include your images. (or you'll be able to extract them at the same time you export/save as RTF, and convert them to something else)
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Smythe posted:if u purchased or used any mac b4 the intel switch its indicitive of an extremely broken cognitive process and fatal levels of fail, OP. i suiggest you get your final affairs in order as the reaper surely cometh  this was the state of the art.
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the best way of getting them to a time-stable format would probably be to get them into clarisworks (probably 4) then from there into a version that can print to PDF (probably appleworks under PPC OS X) if you need any help setting up VMs or anything let me know and I should be able to help as I have most of these softwares somewhere or another
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i had a g4 powerbook op
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I had a 12" powerbook. There still has been no laptop to top it.
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fleshweasel posted:
Don Lapre posted:I had a 12" powerbook. a true post
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Don Lapre posted:I had a 12" powerbook.
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Fax Sender posted:os 9 is the cleanest looking os and i have never encountered a snappier os since
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i have never owned a laptop
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theadder posted:i have never owned a laptop itym a portable or notebook
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upload the files somewhere i'm sure we can reverse engineer it with the power of teamwork
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