[X4U] OT: accessing old floppy disks

[James Baker]

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Michael Winter wrote:

>
> 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
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