On 20-09-2003 19:39, Jack Russell, [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote: > > On Saturday, September 20, 2003, at 10:31 AM, Ken Stone wrote: > >> I just realized that my G4 Sawtooth has no floppy drive (it's been ages >> since I have had a need for one). What is a simple, low cost option for >> external floppy drive? > Depends on the definition of low cost? :-) Personally I love Y-E Data's > external floppy drives. Small, compact and a company with excellent > tech support. http://www.yedata.com/products/floppydrives/usb2x.shtml > They work with Mac's and peecees. No financial interest, yadda, yadda, > yadda. Just a satisfied user. > >> Can a drive sold for PC's also work? Will OS 10.2.6 >> recognize a PC fomatted floppy? > Yup. > > Jack Russell > The cheapest, simpliest and safest way may be: Take a floppy-reading Mac with CD-burner. Make a new map. Around 400+ floppies. Put in your floppies and copy them to that new map. Burn that map to CD. Put that CD in your non-floppy-reading-Mac and run your floppies! Costs???: US$ 1.- ?? And fast: Find out yourself the marks!
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