[Tloewald]

Maybe someone will produce a version of Word for Windows 1.1a that runs on a modern OS, and I'll be able to open and edit documents that have been impossible to open in later versions of Word (of course Word for Windows 2.0 would open the document, convert it to its new format in place, and then crash, so I'd need to find un-borked versions of the documents first).

[yuhong]

I don't believe Word for Windows actually writes to the file until you save it.

[Tloewald]

If I recall correctly, Word for Windows 2 had autosave on by default, and would corrupt Word for Windows files with embedded drawings so that they became impossible to edit. (Experienced with several files at the time.)