All the help I can offer for now.
I could give it a shot, I have some older machines, do you by chance live anyplace near central VA? I work for beer.
If it has a standard hard drive (IDE) you might be able to use a SATA/IDE to USB adapter.
That allows you to plug the hard drive into a newer machine and possibly read the data.
I did that when my old XP crashed. The adapter would not read my C:\OS drive, but it did read my data partion D:\ drive and I was able to copy files to my new desktop.
Google SATA/IDE to USB adapter. They cost around $15 to $20.
Use the floppy drive.
For about $20 you can get an external hard drive adapter at most computer sellers. http://www.amazon.com/Drive-Adapter-Converter-Optical-External/dp/B002OV1VJW
Then you plug it into another computer and access the old drive to copy the files. IF the computer hard drive has an IDE interface this might work.
There are other ways but they are expensive or require a lot of technical knowledge. Beer might also be an option.
Ping!
( the older computer geeks will get the reference)
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If you can post here on it, you have internet access.
If you have internet access - you can open a gmail account, and email those vital documents to yourself. Google has a much larger account size, than the entire hard drive of your old computer - so everything should fit nicely.
It is old enough some collector types might want it. I see them on e-bay for up to 299.95. Maybe you could trade the computer for the data. Maybe a small independent shop. This is pre IDE so the the external drive stuff won’t work. Transfer with a serial cable to a newer computer is a option. But this takes somebody who knows DOS well. There are ways to get it done cheaply.
If you want to keep digital data, you need to be prepared to migrate it to newer technologies before the old technology disappears. I'm sure many of us still have data stored on 3" floppies and even CDs that may quickly become no longer retrievable. Think of all the 8mm home movies and VHS recordings we have of important family events that may be lost for our grandkids or great grandkids because the technology to play them is long gone.
Good luck
M4L
Take hard drive out and put in an enclosure. Convert the file system to NTFS (instruction below). Slime chance you will lose the files, but better than no chance.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?MfrId=0&CatId=27
No one bothered to mention that you are most likely using FAT16 file system that Windows 7 will not read. Once you plug the external drive in you will need to convert to NTFS using the Convert command to read the files off the disk.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/convert-a-hard-disk-or-partition-to-ntfs-format
Wordstar Converters.
http://www.wordstar.org/index.php/downloads/downloads-fileconverters#
First of all,I am an oldschooler so sort of recognize that machine,having started in hobby computing before the IBM PC.If I understand you,the computer itself works but the monitor doesn’t.Not sure how you can tell the computer is still ok.
Not certain which monitor you have -could be mono,or CGA, or special to AT&T.Looks like the monitor is unique.
Most likely the hard drive is MFM interface ,not IDE.IDE came along a few years later I think.Those external hard drive case will be of no use with an MFM drive.
Do an internet search,there are several sites about the AT&T 6300 .
AS for recovering your data,professional services are likely to be costly.
If the computer still works ,emailing the files to yourself might be an option.There are still floppy disk available,probably on ebay.
A null modem cable to a computer having a serial port might be another option.
IF nothing else, at least remove the hard drive before tossing the computer;you may find someone willing to recover your info later.
If you could find someone with a monitor and some floppies...
All the help I can offer for now.
Printers with “printer ports” are still around... Borrow a printer and a working CGA monitor, and print everything out.
There are many hard drive enclosures out there ... but determine what cable you need for your hard drive mechanism - to - hard drive enclosure ... connection ... and then get such an enclosure.
Remove your computer’s hard drive from the computer, and install the hard drive into the enclosure that you bought.
The hard drive enclosure will most likely have a USB or Firewire connection for connecting to some computer.
Find somebody whom you trust, and they use the Mac -— any Mac OS from 10.4 “Tiger” thru 10.8 “Mountain Lion” will do.
Connect your hard drive enclosure to that Mac.
Your hard drive will mount and a generic icon (most likely) will display in the Finder window for the Mac’s Desktop.
Ask your friend to create a new folder on the Mac’s Desktop.
Copy the contents of your hard drive to that folder.
Make a DVD of the contents of that folder.
Repeat for addition old hard drives that you might have around.
VERY easy to get the data off of a Windows OS based machine hard drive, when using the Mac.
Hook up the computer`s telephone jack to your fax machine and turn on the hard drive?
It works from the telephone line to the fax to the pc. It prints out hacking inquires.
never tried the reverse.