[X4U] OT: accessing old floppy disks

[Jim Colgate]

Just a post-script to this tale. I had a box of heterogeneous floppies and
went through the same trial and error. Interestingly, The USB floppy drives
I tried would read an IBM PC formatted 720K floppy but would not recognize
the Macintosh 800K ones. Go figure!

   Jim

> From: Jim Freeman <jpfreeman at mac.com>
> Reply-To: "A place to discuss Mac OS X for the casual user."
> <x4u at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 21:10:07 -0500
> To: "A place to discuss Mac OS X for the casual user."
> <x4u at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> Subject: Re: [X4U] OT: accessing old floppy disks
> 
> Yes, he knows. The 1.4 mg floppies where just a way for him to get the
> data onto his computer. He will burn CDs and keep the files on his HD.
> 
> Jim
> 
> On 24-Mar-05, at 8:47 PM, Stroller wrote:
> 
>> On Mar 24, 2005, at 8:40 pm, Jim Freeman wrote:
>>> ...
>>> Copied data to hard drive and then back onto 1.4 meg floppies. His
>>> current Mac has an external floppy drive that takes 1.4 meg disks.
>>> Problem solved.
>> 
>> Until in X years time he needs to access data currently stored on
>> floppies. Might you gently suggest at this stage he transfers his
>> entire floppy collection to CD, twice, and the BURN THE DAMN THINGS!
>> 
>> Stroller.
> 
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