reading Mac-formatted floppies

[Steve K.]

I have some old mac floppies. Any way to read them?

 

[Chris Lanier]

nope, you have to reformat them even to write on them. you can't read the
data off of it.

 

[Bob Knowlden]

There are third-party utilities to permit reading Mac floppies. I don't know
whether any are freeware. I think that the floppies probably have to be HD.
(The 800k DD Mac floppies used a special drive; I'm hazy on the details, but
it may have been CLV rather than CAV. It had a greater capacity than the 720
kB PC version, and it only cost roughly 10X as much.)

A quick Google search produced:

http://www.macdrive.com/

($30 US commercial software. There's a demo download; it may be a
time-limited version.)

Or, find a Mac, and copy the data onto a PC-formatted floppy. I believe that
PC Exchange has been included with the MacOS since version 7.0.

HTH.

Bob Knowlden

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