[Ti] [OT] Floppy problem

[John Griffin]

I just figured it out - thanks for bringing it up and putting it on the
front burner for me, Richard.

Here is what I did:

I remember that back in the Stone Age I had a Centris 610 that I never got
rid of. So I went into the basement and there in a corner, covered with dust
and debris was my old friend. I brought it upstairs, fired it up (it works!)
and pumped my 800K disks into the floppy slot, copying them to the hard
drive. I then got a handful of 1.4M blank floppies and copied all the files
from the Centris to them.

I was then able to copy all the files off the 1.4M floppies into my
Powerbook via a USB Floppy drive.

Out of over 200 files, there were 5 that were unreadable. I tried to repair
the disk with the copy of Norton that was in the Centris and when that
didn't work I tried MacTools which did work to a certain extent. I got a
couple of the damaged files copied over.

BTW, the Centris has a DataDesk Keyboard with a trackball built in that I
remember using. It has the Alps keys that the Matias keyboard has and was a
pleasure to use, even if it was very noisy. In the unlikely event that a key
on the Mattias keyboard fails, I will probably be able to cannibalize the
DataDesk.

Amazing how ancient technology manages to come to the rescue of
up-to-the-minute technology from time to time!

jg