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I found an old hard drive with various microsof wrod files written from 1986 until 1995.
How can I copy them or transfer them in my other coputers.
I can use Sierra, Mojave and SOnoma.
Is there a software which allows me to collect these files?
Thanks
Mac Pro, macOS 10.14
What are the years of the Macs. Ports and other factors vary, so our knowing that may help us be of better help to you..
Newer versions of Office use .docx. To read old Word files I keep an older Mac with Office 2008 that reads and writes both .doc and .docx files.
Is the external drive a bare internal drive removed from an old computer or a conventional external expansion drive? That fact also makes a. Difference in options we can offer.
You are most welcome, Dante.
The hard drive is an external drive although I wrote the files in a Macintosh PLUS (1987)
That sounds like a SCSI drive, and SCSI has not been supported for a long time. See if this illustrated Wiki article helps you determine if its connectors are SCSI:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCSI_connector
If it is SCSI, this is going to be difficult unless you or someone else has a much older Mac with that interface. For old Macs without SCSI but WITH PCI slots, there was an option of a PCI SCSI adapter card, but none of your Macs have such slots.
I see a few direct SCSI-to-USB adapters but most seem to be the special 36-pin version used on SCSI printer ports. Most SCSI data drives are either 50- or 68-pin.
A few old SCSI drive enclosures had external SCSI connectors but the drive inside was ATA/IDE. Were this the case you could remove the bare drive from the SCSI enclosure and connect it via USB to a modern computer to recover data using a bare drive adapter:
https://eshop.macsales.com/item/NewerTech/U3NV2SPATA/
Does the Macbook Air have an older version of Office installed? Sometimes with Office, if a file on an older format will not open by double-clicking the file, you can open it by first launching Word and then using Word's Open... command. Sometimes.
You can ask around, especially of Universities. Some may have old lab gear that could read SCSI drives if that is what yours proves to be.
I'll check back later in the day to see what your have discovered.
Cheers,
Allan
Thank you very very much Allan for your time and care.
The hard drive is an external drive although I wrote the files in a Macintosh PLUS (1987) to later copy them in another drive. Or I used a floppy disk which I nolonger find as too many decades passed since.
I think the files are all "doc" files, because at the time I didn't add the extension to the files or it wasn't possible. (too many years have gone away)
The software was certainly Word 5.1 so the files had to be "doc" files.
I am currently have a macbookair with Sierra, a mmmacPro 2013 and a dradful Macstudio made in Malesia in 2021.
Regards
Dante Majorana
Read microsoft ver 5 1990 old files
