Please sell me a complete system, or tell me where to get one." Some people ask: "I have an 8-inch drive, sell me the power adapter and cable for use with my modern computer." Often they have no idea how this might be accomplished beyond those statements. Some people ask: "I want to read 5.25-inch or 8-inch diskettes on my PC/Windows/Linux machine. "I want to read old diskettes on my PC/Windows/OSX/Linux machine" To contact me, or for ordering information follow this link. You may need a Web search, to find all my Web pages of interest on this subject. On another Web page, I have a lot of information about floppy drives, diskette media, and various issues. This page is about ways to read and write "old" floppy diskettes (disks from systems of the 1970's and 80's). This Web page last updated dated Jan 10 2019. This site is in no way affiliated with Apple Computer, Inc.How to read and write old floppy disks How to read and write old floppy disks The Apple Logo, Macintosh™, Mac OS™, and others property of Apple Computer, Inc. I remember a ad in a dos magazine where the product advertesed was this stupid thing basically a hole punch that would punch the extra hole in a 720k dos disk so it could be formated as a 1.44 disk and they wanted like 60 bucks for the thing and said it could save you THOUSANDS by allowing you to buy the cheaper 720k disks and convert them 1.44s I remember there used to be a old DOS format command that would force a 1.4MB disk to format in 720K (800K in macintosh format), but that was during my PC days. I didn't think about how hard it is to find 720K/800K disks.but those have GOTTA be hard to find now. I have some old 800k disks I keep around for such an occasion. The hard part is finding the old 800k disks. The Classic II is running system 7.6 and made a 400k floppy from a disk image. I just used disk copy on my Classic II to make a boot disk for a mac 512ke that I picked up cheep. If that doesn't work, then you may need to indeed find an old Mac that will read those. I don't see why Disk Copy 6 wouldn't mount them. I'm pretty sure System 7 can mount them, but a more recent OS (7.6?) would make it easier to find a Mac that can run it and that I can put in network. Does anybody know which is the most recent version of the System that can mount them? I've heard that Mac OS X server can deal with 400k and 800k floppies as read-only, but I don't know if it applies to images as well.
I made them with Disk Copy or ShrinkWrap. I have a bunch of old floppy image files in 400k and 800k format that I can't read anymore. Old 400k/800k disk images (Read 3116 times)
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