What we read
If it spins, we can probably read it.
Below is what we recover and convert most often. Don't see yours? Ask — the list keeps growing.
Disks & drives
Media types
- ◆8" Shugart floppies — CP/M, DEC, IBM, dedicated word processors
- ◆Apple II, IIc, IIe, IIgs 5-1/4" and 3-1/2" floppies
- ◆Apple Macintosh 3-1/2" disks — 400K, 800K, 1.44MB
- ◆AT&T 5700, 7700 word processors
- ◆Atari 400/800/XL/XE
- ◆Bernoulli 10/20 disks
- ◆Brother word processors — 240K, 720K, 1.44MB
- ◆Canon StarWriter and StarWriter Pro disks
- ◆Coleco ADAM floppies
- ◆Commodore Amiga 3-1/2" floppies
- ◆Commodore 64, 128, PET, 1541, 1571, 8250, SFD-1001 drives
- ◆Convergent CTOS and Burroughs BTOS 5-1/4" floppies
- ◆CPT word processor 8" floppies
- ◆DECmate DecWord WPS floppies
- ◆DEC RX50K, RX01, RX02 floppies
- ◆Disklavier, PianoSoft floppies to PianoDisc iQ
- ◆Epson QX-10 Valdocs disks
- ◆Hard drives — SCSI, IDE, SATA, Iomega Jaz, SyQuest, Bernoulli 44/88
- ◆IBM Displaywriter 6580 8" floppies
- ◆IBM Office System 6 8" floppies
- ◆Imation LS-120 / SuperDisk
- ◆Iomega Zip 100, 250, 750
- ◆Iomega Jaz 1GB, 2GB
- ◆Iomega Rev, Clik! disks
- ◆Kaypro, North Star, Osborne, Toshiba & all other CP/M 5-1/4" floppies
- ◆Magneto-optical 3-1/2" — 128MB to Gigamo 2.3GB
- ◆Magneto-optical 5-1/4" — 594MB to 9.1GB
- ◆NBI word processor 8" floppies
- ◆Olivetti word processors
- ◆Philips VideoWRITER
- ◆Smith-Corona word processors (except DataDisks)
- ◆Tandy Model 100/102/200/WP-2 PDD disks
- ◆TI-99/4A 5-1/4" disks
- ◆TRS-80 TRSDOS & Color Computer floppies
- ◆Victor 9000 floppies
- ◆Video floppies — Sony Mavipak, Canon XAP Shot, VF-50, VFD-50
- ◆Wang word processor 8" floppies — OIS, VS, VP
- ◆Windows, DOS, IBM PC 3-1/2" and 5-1/4" floppies
- ◆Xerox 860 IPS word processor 8" floppies
- ◆Yamaha Clavinova disks to MIDI
Documents — free conversion
Word processing & spreadsheets
Word processing
Converted to Word / RTF — freePC
- Ami Pro 1.2, 2.0, 3.x
- AppleWorks 5.0
- ClarisWorks 1.0–5.0
- DCA/RFT
- Final Draft
- IBM DisplayWrite
- IBM Writing Assistant
- Leading Edge (LEWP)
- MS Word DOS through 6.0
- MS Word for Windows 1.x and up
- MS Works for Windows 2.0 and up
- Multimate 4.0
- PFS:Write
- Professional Write 2.0
- Rich Text, ASCII Text
- Valdocs
- WordPerfect DOS 4.2–6.0
- WordPerfect Windows 6.0–13
- WordPerfect Works 2.0, 2.1
- WordStar, WordStar 2000
- XyWrite
Mac
- AppleWorks 5.0, 6.0
- AppleWorks (Apple II) 2.1, 3.0, GS
- ClarisWorks 1.0–5.0
- Final Draft
- FrameMaker MIF 3.0
- MacWrite II
- MacWrite Pro 1.0, 1.5
- MS Word 4.0 and up
- MS Works 3.0, 4.0
- Nisus Writer 3.0, 4.0
- Rich Text, ASCII Text
- WordPerfect 2.x, 3.x
- WriteNow 3.0, 4.0
Spreadsheets & databases
Converted to Excel — freePC
- AppleWorks 5.0
- ClarisWorks 1.0–5.0
- dBase II, dBase III
- Excel 2.x and up
- Lotus 1-2-3
- MS Works for Windows 3.0–95
- Quattro Pro (DOS) 4.0
- Quattro Pro (Windows) 1.0–9.0
- SYLK
Mac
- AppleWorks (Apple II) 2.1, 3.0
- AppleWorks 5.0, 6.0
- ClarisWorks 1.0 and up
- MS Excel 2.0 and up
- MS Works 2.0, 3.0, 4.0
- SYLK
Free conversion
Photos & graphics
- BMP, EPS, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF
- Kodak Picture Disks
- Konica Picture Show Disks
- Mystic Color Labs / Mystic PC Photos / Floppy Shots
- Seattle FilmWorks diskettes
- Sony Mavica camera diskettes
- Video floppies — Mavipak, XAP Shot, VF-50, VFD-50
- Wolf Camera diskettes
- York Photo FotoFloppy disks
Free conversion
Apple II, C64, Amiga, TRS-80
- AppleWorks
- EasyScript
- EasyWriter (Cap'n Software)
- Gutenberg, Gutenberg Jr.
- Magic Window I–II
- Paperclip I–III
- PFS:Write
- Scripsit
- Speedscript
- WordPerfect
Individual attention
Special conversions
A few formats take hands-on work and are priced separately. Unsupported file types are still copied exactly as they were on your disk.
$6.95 / file
Desktop publishing → PDF
- Adobe InDesign
- Adobe PageMaker
- Aldus PageMaker
- QuarkXPress
$9.95 / disk
Very early Macintosh
- FileMaker
- MS Excel 1.5
- WordPerfect 1.0
$19.95 / database
Genealogy → GEDCOM
- Family Tree Maker (FTM)
- LDS Personal Ancestral File (PAF)
- Sierra Generations
Don't see your format?
Ask anyway. If we can't help, we'll tell you before you mail anything.