While I might be a very new coming to these forums, I've probably been using Solidworks a lot longer than the majority of folk here...an early adoptor, we started designs in Solidworks 97!

So...imagine my surprise looking through the archives earlier to find some very old files still in the native '97 file format.  Do you think I can open them in 2010SP1?  Pfft.  Not a hope. Solidworks simply baulks at the idea and bombs out.

Burning question is...how the dickens do I open them?