Opening saved appleworks files in pages

My 4 year old MacBook crashed, got new hard drive (free) at Apple store.
I also bought a MacBook Air and installed IWork.
Installed same IWork on the old MacBook (OSX 10.5.8) as well, since I can't find the original Appleworks disc.
However, can't open the saved (Iomega hard drive) Appleworks files on old MacBook now.
What do I do.
And how will that work on the Air, the same?

You should be able to open AppleWorks Word Processing documents in Pages: use File menu>Open. Pages won't open any other type of AW document.
EazyDraw will open AW Draw documents, though it's not cheap.
Numbers will open AW spreadsheets including calculations and headers and footers. It has slightly fewer calculation functions, so if you are using any of the more obscure functions they may not work.
No other program can open AW Paint or Database documents. To handle this you need a functioning copy of AW to convert them to PICTs and ASCII text respectively.
You may find this article helpful:
http://www.wilmut.org.uk/aw

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