[X4U] OT: accessing old floppy disks

James S Jones jsjones at mac.com
Wed Mar 23 13:07:22 PST 2005


Any Mac with a floppy drive should be able to read 800 K diskettes. 
What it the destination of the documents?

On Mar 23, 2005, at 7:21 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?
>
> How far back do you have to go to find a Mac that can read a DD disk? 
> I have an old 180c powerbook at my parents' house somewhere.



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