Help ID/recovery of unknown word-processor files?

From: Tom Jennings <tomj_at_wps.com>
Date: Wed Apr 28 14:38:23 2004

My brother interviewed two women who drove across the U.S. by themselves
back in 1920-something (a substantial feat, if you know anything about
U.S. culture then or 1920's roads and automobiles), published a little
500-copy book of it. It's long since disappeared, and never got the
attention it deserved. I want to put it on the web.

He's gone now, and so is the computer the files were typed on, and I
don't even know if it was CP/M, Mac, PC or what. They have extentions of
"CWK" and simple 8-char filenames. I know that's CP/M or DOS like, but
they may be exports.

I want to convert them to something "portable" (sic) and eventually
HTML. Luckily the images are all TIFFs, and load with GIMP with
ignorable errors. There's 41 MB of CWK files, about 40 of them.

Any suggestions? A sample file is at http://wps.com/temp/A01.CWK

List relevancy: they are > 10 years old and produced on a computer.
Received on Wed Apr 28 2004 - 14:38:23 BST

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