Thanks to Jerry and James for their responses. I am located in
Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA.
Herb
The 400 & 800 KB diskettes require special hardware, which rotated at
variable speeds to get more data on a single diskette. This is why Mac
diskette drives were so much more expensive.
I'm sure that quite a few of us on this list have Macs that can read
your diskettes. Where are you located?
As an alternative, I dimly recall hearing or reading about some
software tool to read the data off the 400/800 KB disks using a
standard drive. You might try searching a bit for something like that.
On Mar 20, 2005, at 5:20 PM, Herbert Goodfriend wrote:
> A PC-using friend of mine asked me to use my Mac to open a program
> that is on a floppy disk from 1994. My floppy drive (actually an
> Imation SuperDisk drive) does not recognize it;
><snip>
> I would guess that the unrecognizeable floppy must be an older Mac 400
> or 800KB format. Does this sound correct?
>
> I checked Apple Knowledge Base and it tells me that 400KB floppies
> were not supported in OS 8. I can't find anything about 800KB
> floppies.
><snip>
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