We did a data conversion through Pastime and created
an excel spreadsheet with a map showing how the fields
in our old database and the PastPerfect would match
up. You could always ask if that would work for them
instead of converting your data to ASCII. OR, you
could find an external zip drive and plug it into your
mac and give them a zip disc. 
Good luck!
Carey


--- Amanda Thompson Dyer
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> Hello All:
> 
> We are about to upgrade our collections database
> from Accession 2.5 to
> PastPerfect 4.  In order to have our existing files
> converted to
> PastPerfect by the people at Pastime Software, we
> have to create an ASCII
> file from our existing data and send it to them.
> 
> Here is the conundrum:  Accession is on an old Mac
> (Power Macintosh
> 7600/132) so we have to convert the file into ASCII,
> and hope that the
> ASCII will fit onto a floppy (because that's the
> only drive the Mac has)
> or somehow compress the ASCII so that it will fit on
> the floppy.  Once the
> file is on a floppy, it will need to be emailed from
> a PC to the
> conversion specialist so that they can do the
> conversion.
> 
> Has anyone had any experience with a conversion from
> Accession to PC, and
> has paid for the conversion of existing data to the
> new database?
> Specifically, can anyone walk me through creating an
> ASCII file on a Mac?
> The person I spoke with at Pastime Software was
> unfamiliar with Accession
> and therefore can't help.  I would appreciate any
> insight or advice.
> Please feel free to email me off list.
> 
> Thanks,
> Amanda Thompson Dyer
> Bell County Museum
> 
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