Floppy disk converters from punctum read 3,5", 5.25"e und 8" floppy disks from many legacy systems with conventional PC hardware. Some of the floppy formats can even be written and formatted.
Most of the pre-PC typewriter systems ever used in Germany are supported. The documents of these systems are converted into current PC text processing formats like RTF for Word, WordPerfect, DCA/RFT for IBM PCText etc., and formatting attributes like bold print, underlining, italics, tab stops ... are maintained.
Supported systems:
The converter is called on the MS-DOS prompt by specifying input format, input file, output format, output file.
All prices are in Euro. VAT is not added for EC countries, but we need your European VAT ID number.
The data converter datrans is offered in the following variants:
| Licence | Price (Euro) | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| Basic Version | 200 | conversion between two formats |
| Full Version | 350 | between all formats, 1 year update service and hotline |
| Network Licence | 1000 | 5 full versions, with diskette converter pttar |
| Site Licence | 8000 |
same as network licence, but freely useable on all machines of an organization in a geographically limited area |
| Demo Version | 10 | some characters are replaced by spaces |
The demo version translates the characters
p u n c t m P U N C T M 0 2 9
to spaces. All other properties of the software, especially the conversion of the formatting attributes, are the same as in the production version.
Last modification: 10-Jan-2005
Please direct any questions or comments to:
<georg.fischer@t-online.de>, Dr. Georg Fischer.