Did you ever forget to copy forward your legacy data? From a post at www.forum.manifold.net...
Found my backup floppies from 1994. Discovered that no recent Microsoft backup software will recover files from Microsoft’s backup program circa 1994. Found an old copy of MS-DOS 6.2. Found an old laptop with no operating system on it and installed DOS. Ran MSBACKUP to recover the files. Copied them to more floppies. Found another old laptop running Windows XP that has a floppy drive. Used it to copy the files from floppies to a stick. Used the stick to get the files onto my working machine, which has no floppy drive. Discovered that no modern version of Access will open v 1.x files. Found that Open Office Base will open Access 1.x files. Copied data from Open Office Base to Open Office Spreadsheet and then exported from OOS to Excel. I love Microsoft.
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