How to utilize old EPS files?

I have old encapsulated postscript files that I thought were eternal, and I can't open them for viewing or inserting into documents.
What to try next?
- mostly old Illustrator and Photoshop sourced, backed up as EPS when created, not saved as photoshop or illustrator formats under pre-X OS
- don't own any Adobe graphics software to experiment with
- Preview open presents postscript-to-pdf conversion error
- viewing works with <%!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0> in Preview (from Illustrator 6) but not the older header <%!PS-Adobe-3.0> (from Illustrator 3.2)
- can't insert <%!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0> into Pages, but works into MSWord; didn't test printing it at this point but eps preview was intact
- tacking version <EPSF-3.0> onto the older header doesn't help
- file extension changes don't help: <.ps>, <.eps>, <.epsf>
Is there any method or thing that will convert older EPS into something I can at least place into fresh documents? The goal was to put EPS logos into letterhead/card/envelope templates printed from an office laser.

SkyHook17 wrote:
PS-to-PDF:
Nothing against these Rootrise guys other than a lack of history, but an Indian company established Dec 2012, almost no references or reviews, but a plethora of many similar utilities. The sheer availability of linked generic-web-template sites and downloads, and hiding behind any further information other than "give us money" tells me to stay away.
I suspect it's just compiled scripting using existing background utilities on the Mac, and that it would fail because I just tried to do the same thing manually. This utility probably just calls pstopdf and Preview to convert a file with and save it as another format, which doesn't work for me. They have many other utilities that do the same thing with different formats.
EPS Converter:
Three reviews that all say it doesn't work, no support, and no money back. I didn't even bother to look for this company on the web.
ps2pdf:
Doesn't exist, so I wonder if this was an earlier name for pstopdf, again, the background for what I've already tried. Basically, if I do this command line with the terminal instead of the applications, I get a slightly more descriptive error message, if anybody can interpret it: <%%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: Adobe_level2_AI5 ]%%> To me, that's just a comment about the file source so maybe it's more significant, like I need an AI5 dictionary or something.
Adobe Illustrator download:
An interesting idea that I'll save to the end. It's because of the stupid cloud thing now, they want a pound of flesh to start the download and there's no way I'm going that route until I have no other options. I assume I'll be downloading a fully functional version and they'll find a way to "rent" AI to me if I hand over anything like a credit card number. Let's just say it's my holdout idea.
Thanks, anything else, anybody parse EPS in their heads know what things have changed that make old EPSF not really work into its future?
Zamzar can convert them to any of the folowing formats.

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