<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>If the disk is an older 400 or 800kb disk - also known as a DD type disk - that's going to require you to get you hands on an older mac like an SE, and then getting the files moved off that mac onto something modern might be difficult.</div><div><br></div><div>There was a post to the reuse@mit list earlier this week for a giveaway of an SE and an SE/30:</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Ariel Weinberg <<a href="mailto:asweinbe@MIT.EDU">asweinbe@MIT.EDU</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">July 11, 2011 5:46:51 PM EDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">"<a href="mailto:reuse@mit.edu">reuse@mit.edu</a>" <<a href="mailto:reuse@mit.edu">reuse@mit.edu</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><b>[Reuse] Televideo terminal, Mac SE, Mac SE/30</b><br></span></div><br><div>Televideo 950 terminal ( <a href="http://vt100.net/manx/details/6,5485">http://vt100.net/manx/details/6,5485</a> )<br>Mac SE ( <a href="http://lowendmac.com/compact/macintosh-se.html">http://lowendmac.com/compact/macintosh-se.html</a> )<br>Mac SE/30 ( <a href="http://lowendmac.com/compact/macintosh-se30.html">http://lowendmac.com/compact/macintosh-se30.html</a> )<br><br>Pickup in Brookline preferred. Email for further details.<br>_______________________________________________<br>To sub/unsubscribe or to see the list rules: <a href="http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/reuse">http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/reuse</a><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>... though I emailed Ariel about the Televideo and didn't get a reply :( </div><div><br></div><div>If you had a working SE/30 and access to an older Mac AAUI to ethernet interface, you could pop the disk in, copy the files to the SE/30 hard drive, and then use a file transfer program to upload the files somewhere.</div><div><br></div><div>You might even post your question to <a href="mailto:reuse-ask@mit.edu">reuse-ask@mit.edu</a> since many people on that list have older Macs and might be able to help.</div><div><br></div><div>mjp</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Jul 13, 2011, at 10:13 PM, Susan wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Oh boy... 1991... that's likely to be OS 6-7 at most. I'm not sure <br>anything would be backward compatible enough, unless you went to a Mac <br>museum... Also, there might be a physical problem with the disk. <br>Magnetic media don't last very long, and this is 20 years.<br><br>Susan<br><br>On Jul 13, 2011, at 9:47 AM, Gina M D'Allesandro wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Hello,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I have a Macintosh formatted floppy disk from 1991 that I need to <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">pull the files off of. I have tried Mac OS 9.1, 9.2, and X <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">machines, but nothing. Anyone have any ideas?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Thanks,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Gina<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Macpartners mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:Macpartners@mit.edu">Macpartners@mit.edu</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/macpartners">http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/macpartners</a><br></blockquote><br>_______________________________________________<br>Macpartners mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Macpartners@mit.edu">Macpartners@mit.edu</a><br>http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/macpartners<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>