Appleworks 2.0 Conversion

Ok... I have done about 5 hours of reading. I have a unidisk 3.5
diskette that was used on an apple IIe. Some word processing files are
on this disk and they were made by appleworks.

If I can find an apple IIgs and copy the files from the unidisk, to a
normal apple 3.5 800k diskette? Using the drive that comes with the
machine? Can this one drive read the unidisk, and write to a normal 3.5
800k floppy?

Then I take the files with this 800k floppy and then copy them to 1.44
MB?

The files I need may already be on a zip disk... if you can imagine
that.
What type of file system should I expect from a zip disk that was used
in an old apple?

Did people even use Zipdisks on apple's? I am sure an old mac could do
it but I dont know about a zip drive. I suppose via scsi?

Basically I am doing a project for my dad. I am going to texas soon to
try it out.
He told me he copied the data off of a unidisk and onto a zip disk, but
he inst sure.

All he has had was an old Apple IIe, and I dont see how an apple IIe,
could use a zip drive.
He also had an older performa, performer???? Maybe that was the
computer they used to do this job on.

Anyways... hopefully the files will be on zip, if not.... I guess buy
an apple IIgs, and try to get them onto more modern floppies...

Last problem is... converting the old appleworks files into a newer
format...

Any suggestions??? Maybe try to find an older version of clarisworks
4.0???

Then use maclink to convert them from clarisworks 4.0 to appleworks
6.0???

I was born in 1980, so I was pretty young when all this stuff came out.
I have an apple 2 emulator, and a mac quaddra emulator...

I am hoping my dad didnt throw away all his software, like he did with
his old mac hardware.

I wish he could of kept it, maybe I wouldnt have to go out and try to
find an apple IIgs..

Anyone have some advice, stories, headaches, or moaning?

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