Can't open ClarisWorks floppies on PC

Hi. I have some original ClarisWorks 1.0 floppies. I was wanting to burn them to a CD. So, I tried opening them on a PC using TransMac and MacDrive. No dice. I just get a message saying the floppies are not formatted; however, they were used to install ClarisWorks on an older LC II many years ago without any problems. Unfortunately, I no longer have a Mac with a floppy drive. Is there any way I can read these floppies on a PC? Is this something I could get done at Kinko's perhaps? Thanks for any help.
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As my list of models shows, I have kept AT LEAST one working set of hardware for every model of Apple "pc" I have ever owned, for the specific reason that every once-in-a-while one of my late father's clients hits me up for precisely the problem of data recovery.
With that in mind, depending on what size metropolitan area you live in, you MIGHT be able to find someone who does data recovery work for primarily banks, tax accountants, law firms and the like, who are constantly having clients bring them their parents and grandparents real estate and financial records in program formats and disk formats which the manufacturer's have made deliberately obsolete in the name of "bigger and better" (Bronx Cheer Loudly), who will not charge you an arm and a leg to convert a few disks from 3.5" 400/800K to 1.4MB for the USB micro-floppy disk drive of your choice.
One of my high school class mates had a small one-man company that did that with old film movies to VHS tape conversion, you might even try looking for one of those companies who has taken the next step to DVD conversion and has the old hardware around also.
BY THE WAY. I have managed to keep in my "stash" complete "licensed" and boxed copies of the ORIGINAL Appleworks 1.0 and Clarisworks up through version 3. UP UNTIL I "upgraded" to MacOSX.4.6 on my Powerbook Clarisworks 3 worked flawlessly in Classic, I am finding that a LOT of various "things" are now problematic and have purchased a used G4 tower to maintain a copy of MacOSX.2.8 on it so that I KNOW that I have a stable Classic platform.
(STILL use CricketGraph every once in a while also for the QC charting since they actually provided the proof that their statistical analysis functions worked properly.)

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