[X4U] OT: accessing old floppy disks

[Valerie Maples]

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


On 3/23/05 4:11 PM, "Jim Freeman" <jpfreeman at mac.com> wrote:

> Thanks for all the helpfull answers. Apparently he has tried an
> external floppy drive, which will take a 1.4 meg floppy, but not an
> 800k floppy. His currenlty computer is apparently a modern Mac running
> some version of OS X. I also own a VST external floppy drive, which I
> never use. I just checked it and it works with the 1.4 meg floppies I
> found in the bottom of a box somewhere. I don't have any 800k floppies
> to test, but from what I'm hearing it sounds like it won't work. Should
> I even bother sending my floppy drive to work with my wife tomorow?