@morrick Fine. I've been contacted by a fellow who wants to get ClarisWorks & SimpleText documents off his father's Mac Performa 580CD, a model that was discontinued early in 1996. The thing still boots OK (OS 7.5.3) and, since the IDE HD just slides out, I'll put it into an external drive case & use either LibreOffice on the MacBook Air or AppleWorks 6 on the G4 PowerBook to extract the documents. The Docs folder is 22 MB.

@morrick Fine. I've been contacted by a fellow who wants to get ClarisWorks & SimpleText documents off his father's Mac Performa 580CD, a model that was discontinued early in 1996.
The thing still boots OK (OS 7.5.3) and, since the IDE HD just slides out, I'll put it into an external drive case & use either LibreOffice on the MacBook Air or AppleWorks 6 on the G4 PowerBook to extract the documents. The Docs folder is 22 MB.

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