[G5] A Stupid Question..

[Pat]

Help again...what is the difference?  What happens if they are the 
wrong kind?  And how do I tell the difference?

Pat
On Feb 18, 2005, at 6:02 PM, Valerie Maples wrote:

> Be careful!  The external floppy drives I have found cannot read the DD
> disks, only HD.  If someone finds an external USB floppy drive that 
> reads
> both, please let me know.
>
> Valerie
>
>
> On 2/18/05 5:39 PM, "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
>
>>> I'm cleaning out and rearranging my computer desk and files.  I have 
>>> a
>>> number of floppies with good 'stuff' on them, and a floppy reader, 
>>> but
>>> need to know if I can just plug it into the G5 iMac and download all
>>> that data and photos without any thing else being done.  I want to 
>>> burn
>>> it onto a CD for archiving. I don't think I had any software for it.
>>>
>>>   Any help out there?
>>
>> By a "Floppy Reader" I assume you mean a USB Floppy drive?  If so you 
>> should
>> be able to simply plug it in.  I've done that with my G5 2x2, and 
>> I've even
>> used it with Virtual PC 7.0 to boot and install MS-DOS 6.22.
>>
>> You'll want to tell the Mac to "eject" each floppy, though I assume 
>> you'll
>> have to do that manually once it's been removed from the Mac desktop.
>>
>> Zane