On Jan 17, 3:49 pm, "Kyle Parish" <[email protected]> wrote:
> All that is needed is to copy them to the 3.5" floppy and use an
> external drive to copy them to the eMac. If both computers are going
> to be used than an external drive is necessary anyway and the old
> computer can still be used for storage.
Apple specs on the Performa 550:
http://support.apple.com/kb/SP279
Also, lowendmac.com profiles does not show what applications came on
the machine. The floppy and CD options mentioned previously are
valid, but that is only the hardware side. The real challenge is the
file format.
But all Performas came with home oriented applications including
ClarisWorks and TeachText. Users could add Microsoft Works, Microsoft
Word, WordPerfect, etc, but very few folks would do that. TeachText
was very rudimentary. So, the resident files are most likely in
ClarisWorks. AppleWorks 6 and Pages do not open the earliest
ClarisWorks files. What can work is to use an intermediate version
ClarisWorks; that would be ClarisWorks 5 I believe, or possibly 4.
Save in the newer version of CW. Then AppleWorks 6 can open the
intermediate saves. And then both AW and Pages can play with the new
files. By the way, ClarisWorks 5 will not run in OS X.
There are also MacLinkPlus, OpenOffice, and NeoOffice that are worth a
try.
Good Luck.
Al Poulin
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