Old Floppies and stuff any good to anyone

2010-04-05 Thread Peter Faulks
If there is a deserving cause or school than might be interested in Floppies I am throwing out lots of old 1.4mb floppies and zip disks if these are any good to anyone please let me know by Friday, also have the USB floppy drive and zip drive units Airport Extreme I have two units that are

Transferring data from old 5.25" floppies

2006-04-11 Thread Barbara & Geoffrey Maidment
> Hi Everyone...I have a few of the old 5.25² floppy discs with some data that I > would like to transfer to a CD. I¹ve checked with my local dealer and he no > longer has any disc drives that will read this size. The discs were formatted > on an older version of Appleworks back when I had an Ap

Re: OS X and floppies

2003-07-31 Thread David Choy
Hi Lloyd, when you say your floppies don't work, were they 880K floppies or 1.4mb floppies(the latter have a"HD" printed in one corner). 880K floppies aren't supported in OS X. Alternatively, could it be the drive itself? perhaps a firmware update? Give me more detai

Re: Floppies plus more

2003-07-31 Thread Mark Secker
came out later) compared to Intel machines of the era that had to have a separate floppy drives for high density and double density disks. Hi folks, Is there an issue with OSX and floppies? I used to be able to use floppies with my iMac through my SuperDisk. But since changing to OSX most floppie

Floppies plus more

2003-07-31 Thread Lloyd White
Hi folks, Is there an issue with OSX and floppies? I used to be able to use floppies with my iMac through my SuperDisk. But since changing to OSX most floppies will not mount or a message comes up saying the floppy contains nothing that the system can recognise. The same floppies work well on my

Floppies

2003-07-31 Thread Lloyd White
Hi folks, Is there an issue with OSX and floppies? I used to be able to use floppies with my iMac through my SuperDisk. But since changing to OSX most floppies will not mount or a message comes up saying the floppy contains nothing that the system can recognise. The same floppies work well on my

WinDoze95 - wanted (floppies!)

2002-09-09 Thread David de la Hunty
in95 to do it (currently 3.1) but no CD drive. Only communications: parallel, serial, PC-slot with a floppy. so does anyone have a copy of Win95 on floppies that they don't have a use for? thanks, - David