[Macpartners] Help Reading Disk

[Mark J Pearrow]

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.

There was a post to the reuse at mit list earlier this week for a giveaway of an SE and an SE/30:


From: Ariel Weinberg <asweinbe at MIT.EDU<mailto:asweinbe at MIT.EDU>>
Date: July 11, 2011 5:46:51 PM EDT
To: "reuse at mit.edu<mailto:reuse at mit.edu>" <reuse at mit.edu<mailto:reuse at mit.edu>>
Subject: [Reuse] Televideo terminal, Mac SE, Mac SE/30

Televideo 950 terminal ( http://vt100.net/manx/details/6,5485 )
Mac SE ( http://lowendmac.com/compact/macintosh-se.html )
Mac SE/30 ( http://lowendmac.com/compact/macintosh-se30.html )

Pickup in Brookline preferred.  Email for further details.
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... though I emailed Ariel about the Televideo and didn't get a reply :(

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.

You might even post your question to reuse-ask at mit.edu<mailto:reuse-ask at mit.edu> since many people on that list have older Macs and might be able to help.

mjp





On Jul 13, 2011, at 10:13 PM, Susan wrote:

Oh boy... 1991... that's likely to be OS 6-7 at most. I'm not sure
anything would be backward compatible enough, unless you went to a Mac
museum... Also, there might be a physical problem with the disk.
Magnetic media don't last very long, and this is 20 years.

Susan

On Jul 13, 2011, at 9:47 AM, Gina M D'Allesandro wrote:

Hello,

I have a Macintosh formatted floppy disk from 1991 that I need to
pull the files off of.  I have tried Mac OS 9.1, 9.2, and X
machines, but nothing.  Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,

Gina

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