[iBook] Need Floppy Drive For iBook G3 900

[victoria duggan]

Hi Fred

I do not know if this will answer the question in full but it was a  
good solution for me.
I have a number of macs from a mac classic up to G4 and from a  
powerbook 520 up to a pismo .
  I use the classic when i want to write stuff IE letters and  
receipts as i do all these in Mac write, and i really cannot be  
bothered when i finnish or i am in no hurry as the classic is not  
connected to anything anymore, Just sits on the desk looking pretty  
now. so letters tend to sit on the internal drive until i remember to  
get and send them. The classic is running 7.0.1 and has a 800k floppy  
onboard.
  I put the letters or receipts on the floppy's and then drag and  
drop them onto the G4 via an imation super 120 disk. It reads all  
floppy's up to the 120mb super-disk's.  This is connected to the G4  
via usb and is fully supported in X but you need the drivers from the  
web if you want to run it in 9.xx

Hope it helps!!

vicki
On 13 Oct 2005, at 03:52, Fred Stevens K2FRD wrote:

> Hi all--
>
> I have some financial info on some floppies and now need to access  
> that info. The floppies were made on a Mac IIvx a number of years  
> ago and that machine is long gone. My 14.4" iBook G3 900 of course  
> does not have a floppy drive. I've located several new external  
> floppy drives at MacConnections which operate off the USB ports;  
> they're reasonably priced and available, but they specify 1.44mb  
> floppies and some of my oldies are 750kb or 1mb.
>
> I also looked for floppy drives on eBay, but didn't see many and  
> wasn't sure they would work in any instance.
>
> Does anyone anticipate any problems opening these floppies on a new  
> 1.44mb floppy drive or any other potential problems before I order?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Fred
>
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