The odd thing is that this problem only affects Works 3.0 - no other applications are affected.
Dean On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Tyrone L. Warbasse <[email protected] > wrote: > I'm starting to wonder if the platters in the hard drive are losing > it's life and ready to give up the ghost. Also, if the floppy drive > was used "alot" in it's life, the heads could be ready to go, too. > Even the internal transistors and other electronic doo-dads on the > motherboard have a finite lifespan, and of course, tin whiskers could > develop. > > On 2/22/11, Abel Ortiz Monasterio <[email protected]> wrote: > > The PC exchange helps a lot. When I tried copying old images in to Mac > > formatted floppies I had trouble because the formatting was taking up > space > > and the single disk images did not fit. (For example an old OS from the > > apple site). > > > > But if you download from the net and copy into a PC formatted disk they > fit > > and you can then read it on the vintage Mac > > On Feb 22, 2011 6:11 AM, "Gregg Eshelman" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> --- On Mon, 2/21/11, Dean <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>> Tyrone, Christian and Gregg- > >>> > >>> Thanks so much for your responses. You gave me a lot > >>> of info that I > >>> have to digest and consider. Some of what you wrote > >>> was over my head > >>> technically, so when I have a minute, I'll be asking some > >>> questions, if you don't mind. > >>> > >>> One question I have right now is how can I copy files to a > >>> PC-DOS floppy? If I insert anything but a mac-formatted > >>> floppy into the > >>> Quadra, I'll get a message something like "this disk is > >>> unreadable, do you want to initialize it?" > >> > >> You need PC Exchange installed. This page has the info on it. > >> > >> http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/pc2mac.html#asw > >> > >> With that, you can use PC formatted disks and other media. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> ----- > >> You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs > > group. > >> The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our > > netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > >> To leave this group, send email to > > [email protected] > >> For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs > >> > >> Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ > > > > -- > > ----- > > You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs > > group. > > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our > > netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To leave this group, send email to > [email protected] > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs > > > > Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ > > > -- > Tyrone L. Warbasse, > http://www.totallyparanoia.com/ > http://www.myspace.com/coffee4binky/ > > "¿Cuál es tu nombre? Vete a la mierda, ese es mi nombre!" > > Twitter: coffee4binky > AOL/AIM: detectiveragga > Yahoo! Chat: thematrixreformatted > YouTube: coffee4binky > Also, find me on Facebook! > > -- > ----- > You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs > group. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our > netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To leave this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs > > Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ > -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
