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From: jgreco@archimedes.math.uwm.edu (Joe Greco)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: PET CBM 8022 ---> IBM PC-DOS Diskette CONVERSION
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Date: 26 Feb 90 22:18:31 GMT
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In article <1990Feb26.175510.12858@athena.mit.edu> garlands@athena.mit.edu (Nathanial G Charles) writes:
>
>I have a 5.25 inch diskette that was created on a PET CBM 8022 using the
>program WORDPRO 4.  I desperately need to transfer the data from those
>files and put them onto a IBM PC-DOS readable format so I can import
>them into WORDPERFECT or something.  
>
>Is there some sort of device driver available that will allow IBM PC-DOS 
>to read diskettes created by a PET CBM 8022?

Doubt it very highly, due to hardware differences.

>Does the PET CBM 8022 have an RS_232 compatible serial port?  
>(I could connect to the IBM PC in host mode and transfer the files.)

No, it doesn't.

>Is there a program on the PET that will write files in IBM PC-DOS format?

Are you kidding?  ;-)

>Are there any other ways that I could at least transfer the file from
>PET format diskette to a PC-DOS formatted diskette?  If so, I could use
>Norton Utilities to extract the data from the WORDPRO file.

Again, hardware differences.

>Anyone with any ideas, please contact Nate Charles ( garlands@athena.mit.edu)
>or post to the net, if appropriate.  I'd appreciate any and all leads, no
>matter how small.  

The best hope is to find somebody with a modem for the PET, and upload your
files back to yourself.  This is not "easy" but possible.

If you can find somebody with a 64/128 and a copy of Big Blue Reader, it
might be possible to have them do the conversion - I have never tried it.

Otherwise, you may be "stuck"... (and the BBR cannot work if the files are in
8050/8250/SFD format).