[Nhcoll-l] "Accession" software conversion

[Beth Copeland]

Sorry, I replied off-list to Ms. Ortiz.
We currently have the database software Accession, written for Macs back in the late 1980s (I think the last update was 1992(!)). There are several old iMacs here that we nurture along so we can use the program. We will soon begin the process of migrating to Emu.
I don't understand the tech-aspect of this dinosaur of a program, but in the past, minds greater than mine have tried to migrate data out of it & found it very difficult. Now, we are leaving it to the professionals!
If there isn't a lot of data stored in the program, I would be inclined to print it out & just re-enter it.
Good luck!
Beth

Beth Copeland
Collections
The Houston Museum of Natural Science
5555 Hermann Park Drive
Houston, TX  77030-1799
email bcopeland at hmns.org<mailto:bcopeland at hmns.org>
phone 713 639 4679
fax 713 639 4767

From: nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu [mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Opitz, Cindy
Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2013 9:27 AM
To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu
Subject: [Nhcoll-l] "Accession" software conversion

Happy New Year!
Does anyone have experience with software called "Accession"? A collection on campus databased objects on an iMac in the 1990s using "Accession" software and now has no access to the information. I'm not familiar with the program. The collection manager currently uses Past Perfect for a different collection and would like help figuring out how to retrieve the data from Accession for use in Past Perfect. Any ideas?

Cindy Opitz
Collections Manager
Museum of Natural History
11 Macbride Hall
The University of Iowa
Iowa City IA 52242
319-335-0481
www.uiowa.edu/mnh<http://www.uiowa.edu/mnh>
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