[G5] A Stupid Question..

[Valerie Maples]

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
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