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I have the same problem many share. I have a bunch of 880/440 KB disks and 1.44 disks. I want to use them with OS X.
Thanks
Gene

--- In HyperCard-Mailing-List, "Glenn E Fisher" <gefisher@...> wrote:
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> Mark,
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> I have been a HyperCard user from the early Years.
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> Take a look for some of my posting in the comp.sys.mac.hyperCard
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> from the years 1994-2001.
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> My from name would be fine.
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> Thanks,
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> Glenn.
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> PS: As you may already know I'm a long time user of RunRev (liveCode) also.
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On Feb 20, 2011, at 9:50 AM, MarvinH wrote:

> >I have the same problem many share. I have a bunch of 880/440 KB disks and 1.44 disks. I want to use them with OS X.


The tricky part now would be to find a machine that has an old enough floppy drive and also Ethernet, or a CD burner. Later floppy drives, and all of the ones you can buy now, don't do the variable speed needed to read 800k. There are plenty of cheap USB floppy drives that can read the 1.44MB disks, it you use one of those, this page may be handy:

http://the-penciler.blogspot.com/2009/10/of-floppy-disks-hfs-and-snow-leopard.html

That will describe how you can make an image file on your hard drive that is a copy of the floppy.

I can't quite figure out which machines had both the variable speed floppy drive and also Ethernet. I have a Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh, and that has a floppy drive (that I think can read 800K), but it doesn't have an Ethernet port.

The only option I can think of with the equipment I own would be to use my 20th Anniv Mac with a dial up modem, and transfer a disk image file to an ftp site! I may try that, just to see if it works.

>I can't quite figure out which machines had both the variable speed floppy
>drive and also Ethernet. I have a Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh, and
>that has a floppy drive (that I think can read 800K), but it doesn't have
>an Ethernet port.

I just did some searching and answers are hard to find on Apple's support
site but 800k floppies were still supported in OS 8.6. I suspect that it
was dropped in 9.0.

400k MFS support was dropped with OS 8.0.

The next question is... which machines capable of booting in this OS range
also have an 800k capable drive? I know my PowerComputing PowerCenter Pro
does and I think the Beige G3 might, although I don't have one set up to
test. The LC's should all work.


I remember making note of all these changes as they happened but I can't
exactly recall any of it now.

>The only option I can think of with the equipment I own would be to use my
>20th Anniv Mac with a dial up modem, and transfer a disk image file to an
>ftp site! I may try that, just to see if it works.

It's ridiculous that it didn't have ethernet.

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Terry Bowman, KA4HJH
"The Mac Doctor"

On Feb 20, 2011, at 12:33 PM, KA4HJH wrote:

> It's ridiculous that it didn't have ethernet.

There was an Ethernet option I think, but it involved a card, and an ugly bulge in the back of the casing. I should check, in case I did get that option...

For anyone who doesn't remember the anecdote, I won the machine at the 1997 WWDC. There were two to be won, and about 2000 people in the audience. My name came out of the huge tumbler first.

Here's an amazing web app:

http://www.everymac.com/systems/by_timeline/ultimate-mac-timeline.html

You can't filter on a particular feature, but it's still impressive.