Older .doc file Wont open in winxp pro

[fortyfivenj]

I wrote a file on an older computer, I saved it to floppy, and no longer have the older computer, I put the floppy in the drive and I saved the .doc file on the hard drive, but all I have to view it is wordpad. How can I recover this file?

[Tinker]

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=en