Apple has not only been releasing new hardware, but they have also
been tossing out new versions of their apps (for example iTunes has
been updated again) Check your SUPP over the next few days for new
versions of things.
On the the Write Now question? Also keep in mind that MacLink Plus
had the ability to translate a few bazillion file kinds to a few
bazillon other kinds of files, so your friend should be able to get
something that will work.
Jerry
[trying very hard not to directly ask 'why, with all of the new Apple
hardware (both low and high end that is) coming out, why make a move
from the superior Mac SE to the other side?'].
On Oct 20, 2005, at 11:30 PM, Lee Larson wrote:
> On Oct 20, 2005, at 7:41 PM, Nelsn Helm asked:
>
>
>>> Does anyone have suggestions for how to get documents that are in
>>> WriteNow on an Macintosh SE (from 1987) off of that computer and
>>> translated into Word and onto a PC? Is this completely hopeless?
>>> I have years and years of writing on it -- a lot of short
>>> stories, a few aborted novels, etc. -- for some reason I
>>> stubbornly kept writing fiction on the Macintosh SE because I
>>> loved working on it. I used to work somewhere that had Apple
>>> computers that could translate the WriteNow program into Word,
>>> but that was years ago. Now the Apple computers where I work
>>> don't even take disks. If it is possible for me to somehow
>>> download the entire contents of the Macintosh SE onto one of the
>>> Apples at work and then convert, I could do that.
>>>
>
> WriteNow was a great word processor. I used it for quite a while.
> When I finally gave it up, I used the feature in WriteNow to save
> in RTF (rich text) format. This preserves most of the formatting
> and can be imported into any version of Word because that's what
> Microsoft designed RTF to do.
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