Cannot open old Appleworks spreadsheet document

I've got an old spreadsheet document created/modified in 1997 that won't open in Appleworks or Numbers. I get "an I/O error occurred". I have several other similar documents that were created in 1999 and later, and they all open. Any hints on how to get that old file opened? Thanks,
Don

That is a very kind offer. As it turns out, I have a bunch of old Appleworks files that won't open. It seems to be right around the 1999 year and earlier that won't open, I get the "I/O error". Trying to open them in Numbers gives me an "unsupported version" error.
Files from 2001 open in Appleworks but I get a dialog that says they were created with a previous version of Appleworks and a copy will be opened. At least they open and when I save the new copies they open normally in Appleworks and Numbers. Files from about 2002 and later all seem to open normally in both programs.
Basically, I'm going through old files that I would still like to have access to in anticipation of Lion's discontinued support of anything PowerPC. These files are old business files that I don't need at the moment, but still want to have for reference. I'm still running PowerPC computers, but need to upgrade soon, and it looks like a lot of perfectly good stuff is no longer going to work.
I thought I had an old Appleworks CD but can't find it. Do you think an ebay approach will turn up a disc with a version prior to 6.2.9?

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