On Jan 17, 2009, at 3:07 PM, Charles Davis wrote:

> On Jan 17, 2009, at 2:50 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote:
>
>>
>> well, I know it's got a built-in floppy drive... if I get a USB  
>> floppy
>> for the emac, that should work fine for the file transfer... unless I
>> need to reformat the disk on the emac side? that would be not so  
>> good.
>> you know if the current mac format is the same as macs of that era?
>> Jeff
>
> Expect it to NOT be.



Umm there have only ever been three Mac floppy disk formats: 400K,  
800K (neither of which OS X reads) and the original 'superdrive' 1.2  
meg disks.

The Performa has a 1.2 meg disk, OS X will read it just fine.


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