You may find an external USB floppy drive will not read older Apple disks.
Also, it may be best to create disk images in a format usable on the SE/30. For those reasons, I would recommend using the internal floppy drive of the SE/30 to create disk images on the SE/30 hard drive, which then could be copied to an external SCSI device (CD writer or hard disk), or even exported via serial port if you have the right hardware and plenty of patience. I would recommend using ShrinkWrap to create the disk images. (search http://www.macintoshrepository.org) IIRC ShrinkWrap v2.1 was freeware, ShrinkWrap v3.5 was a later (shareware?) release with more bells and whistles. For hardware bridge between the old world and new world Macs, I use a WallStreet PowerBook. It can run Systems from 8.0 through to OSX 10.4.11 (Tiger), has two "expansion bays" which can accept hot-pluggable CD, hard drive or floppy drive modules. You can boot the machine from an inserted CD or hard drive module containing whatever OS you wish. It has SCSI-2, Ethernet, and serial ports built in. It also has two PCMCIA card slots allowing addition of USB and firewire ports. hth.. AD --------------------------------------- On Thu, 2 Feb 2017 14:53:09 -0800 (PST), [email protected] wrote: > The SE/30s I've rescued have come with a lot of floppies, and I'd like to > back the ones that are readable to my MacBook as insurance. How do people > recommend doing this? > > I'm assuming that I can plug a USB floppy drive into the MacBook, but are > there any special considerations on the software side? > > Thanks, > > julian > > > > -- > -- > ----- > 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 subscribed to the Google Groups > "Vintage Macs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- ----- 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 subscribed to the Google Groups "Vintage Macs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
