Ancient Mac file/disk preservation/archiving (was Re: Mac 400k floppy drive alignment?)

[Dennis Boone]

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Rich Alderson <RichA at vulcan.com> wrote:
> One of these days one of my tuits will be other than rhomboidal, and I'll put
> System 7.5 on the 6100 in my storage locker (since that's the last version of
> Mac OS that will deal with 400K disks)...

Those who have a runnable copy of Word 1.0 for Mac may wish to keep it
runnable.  The file format it generated is readable by nearly nothing
else, including any later Word version.  We had to recover a textbook
(possibly the only one ever written) for an African language (Pulaar)
written by a local professor in the 80s using Word 1.0.  Since I've
never been a machead, the only thing that saved us was that one of our
student employees happened to have an old Mac laying around that had
this version installed.

De