Why Cant Microsoft Word 2000 (and so on) Read Word Documents Created on the 600?
Why not? Because, they are saved in what is now an incompatible Word file format. While there used to be versions of Word out there that read and translated Word documents between the 600 and MS-DOS machines, they are all gone now. Its often called Progress. 🙂 What you have to do is print the document in on your 600 to an ASCII text file. Then, you can upload that document to your computer using Telcom. You can then use Word, Notepad, or just about any other ASCII text reader to open them.
