I had a post for this, but my 'Pod ate it. Anyway, is there any way to read 800k floppies for modern Macs with USB floppy drives? Even OS 9?
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2009, November 27 - 9:42pm
#1
800k disks
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2009, November 27 - 10:29pm
#2
Not really.
The 800KB disk used a variable speed rotation (designed by the Woz) to get that extra capacity out of it. So a stock floppy drive is not going to be able to read it, even inside a Mac. Find someone local who owns an old Mac II or compact Mac (I have an SE), and ask them kindly to retrieve the files.
Where's your local Mac User Group ?
2009, November 28 - 2:21am
#3
I thought it was software and hoping a utility could retrieve it. That or using an emulator.