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st: RE: How to read a very old SPSS file?
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st: RE: How to read a very old SPSS file?
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Sat, 5 Feb 2011 06:10:32 -0500
If this hasn't already been solved (I am missing the other responses) have you tried stat/transfer? Its specialty is reading arcane legacy archives. Back in the day, the owner (I've forgotten his name unfortunately) wrote the code and answered the phones - he was really helpful if you had something his program couldn't transfer.
Jack
John Sandberg
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University of Maryland Population Research Center
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McGill University
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Subject: st: How to read a very old SPSS file?
Thanks to Michael Mitchell <[email protected]> and Sergiy Radyakin <[email protected]> for their very helpful comments on this issue.
Following up Michael's remark that " The SPSS binary file in EBCDIC format needs to be read using an IBM mainframe version of SPSS", would anyone who has access to such a computer and would be able to try and read the file for me, please contact me off list?
Sergiy: thanks very much for your offer. I'll contact you off list next week, as you suggest.
General lesson for you all: be very very cautious in your archiving of precious data.
I hadn't intended to dabble in IT archaeology, but I've ended up in this situation due to my naïve archiving methods 20 years ago during two job moves. I archived a readable copy in ascii format (exported from SPSS) to a 3.5" floppy disk, but later discovered the disk was faulty. Mea culpa.
Stephen
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