Hi there,
I'm not sure if I'm in the right place, but I'd be really grateful if anyone out there could point me in the right direction with this..
My dad has loads of old letters and stuff that he wrote on his old Amstrad PC2086 D, dating from about 1990. They're all saved on 3.5 DS DD floppy discs. However when I try to open the files on my modern computer everything is jumbled up.
I can see the folders and all their names OK, but none of the files within them have proper file extensions. I've managed to open some of them by giving them the extension .txt, but then all the contents come out mixed up in a load of gobbledegook.
Eg, one of them looks like this:
Basically, I would love to get rid of all this gobbledegook and just turn them all into nice clean Word files, as part of my dad's 80th birthday present next month!
Does anyone have any idea how I might do this? If yes, I'd be extremely grateful for any help you could give me.
(by the way, I don't know if this might help or not, but when I just copied and pasted the above quote, lots of the characters I'm trying to get rid of disappeared - in my file every space appears as a kind of little upside down T-bar character)...
anyway, enough rambling - thanks for reading - it would be great to hear from anyone who could help!
Lizzyd
I'm not sure if I'm in the right place, but I'd be really grateful if anyone out there could point me in the right direction with this..
My dad has loads of old letters and stuff that he wrote on his old Amstrad PC2086 D, dating from about 1990. They're all saved on 3.5 DS DD floppy discs. However when I try to open the files on my modern computer everything is jumbled up.
I can see the folders and all their names OK, but none of the files within them have proper file extensions. I've managed to open some of them by giving them the extension .txt, but then all the contents come out mixed up in a load of gobbledegook.
Eg, one of them looks like this:
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ÿ L a y o u t 2 x
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ÿ L a y o u t 4 x
ÿ L a y o u t 5 x
ÿ L a y o u t 6 x
ÿ L a y o u t 7 x
ÿ L a y o u t 8 x
ÿ L a y o u t 9 x
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Basically, I would love to get rid of all this gobbledegook and just turn them all into nice clean Word files, as part of my dad's 80th birthday present next month!
Does anyone have any idea how I might do this? If yes, I'd be extremely grateful for any help you could give me.
(by the way, I don't know if this might help or not, but when I just copied and pasted the above quote, lots of the characters I'm trying to get rid of disappeared - in my file every space appears as a kind of little upside down T-bar character)...
anyway, enough rambling - thanks for reading - it would be great to hear from anyone who could help!
Lizzyd