Brother WP1 -> ASCII (or anything reasonable)

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From: Gerhard Mehldau
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 1990 03:00

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Hi all,

  I have a problem that I hope someone here can help me solve.

  My father mailed me a 3.5" DSDD floppy disk that he says was
formatted to 116K and written by a Brother WP1 word processor.
He would like to transfer the data from this disk (and about
40 others of the same kind) to a 286 clone running MS Windows.

  He contacted Brother (in Germany), but was told that they
would not provide any assistance - not even for transfering
the data to their very own successor model.  Needless to say,
he won't be buying any Brother products anytime soon :-(.

  So, my question is:  Does anyone know how to do this, or
know of some software that can do it?  In the absence of this,
does anyone have an email address or a phone number for Brother's
Tech. Support (in the U.S.)?  Any help would be appreciated!

- Gerhard

P.S.  Please respond via email, as I don't normally read
      this newsgroup.

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-> Gerhard Mehldau
   Dept. of Computer Science	internet: gerhard@cs.arizona.edu
   University of Arizona	uucp:     {cmcl2,noao,uunet}!arizona!gerhard
   Tucson, AZ 85721, U.S.A.	voice:    +1 (602) 621-4632

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From: gerhard@cs.arizona.edu (Gerhard Mehldau)
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Subject: Brother WP1 -> ASCII (or anything reasonable)
Keywords: 116K 3.5" floppy, Brother WP1, any format
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Date: 19 Oct 90 03:00:40 GMT
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