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<blockquote data-quote="MoogleEmpMog" data-source="post: 3497331" data-attributes="member: 22882">I'm essentially tech-nonfunctional.&nbsp; I've never successfully made a change to the internal hardware of a personal computer in over twenty years of owning them, no matter how plug-and-play it was supposed to be or how closely I tried to follow the directions.Where the 5.25&quot; discs are concerned, I *still have a working C-64*.&nbsp; It's never been modded, serviced by a professional, or had its inner workings so much as cleaned.&nbsp; Those suckers are ROCKS.In terms of the wordperfect files, they've just been copied from PC to PC as part of the familial infodump.&nbsp; I guess most people just trash their old files, or store them off-disc?&nbsp; My experience is that old files are copied en masse when a new computer replaces an old one, since hard drives escalate.&nbsp; Contra others' assertions, word processing programs are, IMX, pretty much 100% backwards-compatible with the major formats of even two decades ago.&nbsp; I suppose those files tend to get gradually saved in new formats as I reference them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MoogleEmpMog, post: 3497331, member: 22882"] I'm essentially tech-nonfunctional. I've never successfully made a change to the internal hardware of a personal computer in over twenty years of owning them, no matter how plug-and-play it was supposed to be or how closely I tried to follow the directions. Where the 5.25" discs are concerned, I *still have a working C-64*. It's never been modded, serviced by a professional, or had its inner workings so much as cleaned. Those suckers are ROCKS. In terms of the wordperfect files, they've just been copied from PC to PC as part of the familial infodump. I guess most people just trash their old files, or store them off-disc? My experience is that old files are copied en masse when a new computer replaces an old one, since hard drives escalate. Contra others' assertions, word processing programs are, IMX, pretty much 100% backwards-compatible with the major formats of even two decades ago. I suppose those files tend to get gradually saved in new formats as I reference them. [/QUOTE]

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