At 10:38 AM 4/20/04 +0200, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
Just be careful, floppies are _very_ unreliable for backups.
I've heard this said, but I started using floppies in 1980 (TRS-80 and
Color Computer), and even those are still readable nearly a quarter-century
later. A friend who still has a
I have actually had a lot of experience with this. I would never consider
floppies as a save media, too many of them have failed on my.
Johannes
On 21.04.2004 16:48 Uhr, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote
I've heard this said, but I started using floppies in 1980 (TRS-80 and
Color Computer), and even
Over the past few years diskettes seem to have been getting cheaper in
price and quality. Besides the market has been flooded with low priced
designer color diskettes which fail after a few uses, especially if carried
around in hip pockets as I sometimes see people doing these days (bad
On Apr 19, 2004, at 8:01 AM, Phil Daley wrote:
Or just transfer them to PC Format disks, Macs with superdrives
(pretty much
any Mac after the SE) can format and write PC disks.
And newer Macs can read the old 800K disks?
My recently defunct Mac could read both PC disks and old 800K Mac
disks.
On 20.04.2004 8:42 Uhr, Mark D Lew wrote
My recently defunct Mac could read both PC disks and old 800K Mac
disks. I had a pile of ancient 800K floppies which I recycled and used
for backing up small files.
Just be careful, floppies are _very_ unreliable for backups.
Johannes
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I have a Mac SE running System 6.
I have a bunch of Microsoft Word documents on 800K floppies.
Is there any way to get those documents to a PC?
1. I would first try a USB external floppy on a modern mac. Copy the
data, burn it to one CD and put that in the PC
2. Or if current USB floppy drives
At 09:38 AM 04/19/2004, Phil Daley wrote:
I have a Mac SE running System 6.
I have a bunch of Microsoft Word documents on 800K floppies.
Is there any way to get those documents to a PC?
I'm guessing you don't have any way to connect to the Internet from this
machine? Email or FTP would be the
On 19.04.2004 15:55 Uhr, Aaron Sherber wrote
Other than that, there are PC programs which let us read Mac disks. Take a
look at TransMac (www.asy.com) or MacDrive (www.mediafour.com)
Beware: these programs will almost certainly not be able to read old Mac
800k floppies. (As far as I know
At 4/19/2004 09:55 AM, Aaron Sherber wrote:
At 09:38 AM 04/19/2004, Phil Daley wrote:
I have a Mac SE running System 6.
I have a bunch of Microsoft Word documents on 800K floppies.
Is there any way to get those documents to a PC?
I'm guessing you don't have any way to connect to the
At 10:02 AM 04/19/2004, Phil Daley wrote:
I looked at several transfer programs this morning. They all require a
Superdrive (1.44MB) floppy to work.
Ah, yes, sorry about that -- it's been a while since I tackled this
problem. Do current (or recent) Mac floppy drives read the older disks? If
On 19.04.2004 16:36 Uhr, Aaron Sherber wrote
Ah, yes, sorry about that -- it's been a while since I tackled this
problem. Do current (or recent) Mac floppy drives read the older disks? If
so, then you could get a friend to transfer the files to 1.44 disks, and
then get them to a PC. Come to
At 4/19/2004 10:51 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
Or just transfer them to PC Format disks, Macs with superdrives (pretty much
any Mac after the SE) can format and write PC disks.
And newer Macs can read the old 800K disks?
That is good news.
I am sure I must know someone with a newer Mac.
Phil
On 19.04.2004 17:01 Uhr, Phil Daley wrote
At 4/19/2004 10:51 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
Or just transfer them to PC Format disks, Macs with superdrives (pretty much
any Mac after the SE) can format and write PC disks.
And newer Macs can read the old 800K disks?
At least until Macs
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