[X4U] OT: accessing old floppy disks

Jim Freeman jpfreeman at mac.com
Wed Mar 23 18:41:28 PST 2005


This looks like the best plan. Now all I need to do is track down an 
old Mac with a floppy drive!

Jim

On 23-Mar-05, at 7:55 PM, Valerie Maples wrote:

> I had this problem with some old games.  I took them to my beige G3 and
> saved them to the HD, then saved them to a HD disk.  I then used a USB
> floppy drive on the new machine to install/transfer.
>
> A bit of a pain, but the best solution I could come up with under the
> circumstances.  I am of half a mind to salvage the old floppy drive 
> from my
> dead PPC 5260 and put it in a USB case.
>
> Good luck!
> Valerie



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