[X4U] OT: accessing old floppy disks

[Michael Winter]

On Mar 23, 2005, at 9:21 AM, Jim Freeman wrote:

> A collegue of my wife needs to get at some important documents that 
> are on Macintosh formatted double density floppy disks. He says all 
> the disk drives he has tried only support high density disks.
>
> Any suggestions?

What kind of drives has he tried? I thought all the high density drives 
that are built into Macs could also read/write the double density 
disks. The floppy drive on my old beige G3 reads/writes both, and I 
think that was about the last Mac that came with a floppy drive built 
in.

The biggest problem I have is that the floppy drives in the old Macs 
get used so infrequently that they get dirty and don't want to work. Of 
course the fact that both the drives and the disks are getting on in 
years doesn't help reliability either (many of my floppies are becoming 
unreadable).

-Mike