[X4U] OT: accessing old floppy disks

James S Jones jsjones at mac.com
Wed Mar 23 14:52:54 PST 2005


On Mar 23, 2005, at 2:11 PM, Jim Freeman wrote:

> Should I even bother sending my floppy drive to work with my wife 
> tomorow?

No.

> I will pass on the info that any Mac with a built in floppy drive will 
> read it. Maybe he can find someone with one. I'm also inquiring if 
> anyone at my work has one. They put an old beige G3 in my office for a 
> while. It had both a floppy and a zip drive. If that thing is still 
> around I can copy the data to a 1.4 meg floppy or a zip disk, and get 
> it onto a modern Mac that way. Or maybe make a network connection 
> somehow.

This sounds like the best bet.



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