Recovering Macintosh floppies
Is there someone coming to the repair workshop that can help someone recover Macintosh files from 3.5" disks? Likely they are word processing files from a Quadra. Please let me know. Thanks! Jeff Brace
OK. No one answered this. Does anyone have working Quadra and is local to InfoAge? Someone is looking to recover files from a 3.5 floppy disk. It is unknown which software it was made with. He needs to: - Print out the files (each is a character study of no more than 10 print pages) - Open the files and allow him to use his cell phone to capture each page to re-type on his PC - Or provide some other way of capturing the file contents so he can re-create these data on a modern computer. Let me know if you are local and can help. Thanks! Jeff On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 11:00 PM Jeffrey Brace <jeffrey@vcfed.org> wrote:
Is there someone coming to the repair workshop that can help someone recover Macintosh files from 3.5" disks? Likely they are word processing files from a Quadra.
Please let me know.
Thanks!
Jeff Brace
To give everyone an update. The man dropped off a double-sided floppy disk yesterday (5/18/24). Tony Bogan stopped by on 5/19/24 with a working Mac SE/30. I popped the disk in. It read without any problems. There were MS word documents on it they loaded fine. Tony copied them to his SD hard drive. He also took the disk for imaging. He will attach hardware so that they can be transferred to a modern format and emailed to me and then to the man. So it all worked out in the end! In the future I hope to learn and get the Applesauce working and hooked up to an external drive 3 1/2" as well as 5 1/4" drive. Doug hopes to get other things like Greaseweasel, etc. working and we are hoping to get help from others who know about creating an archiving setup in the museum. Jeff Brace On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 11:00 PM Jeffrey Brace <jeffrey@vcfed.org> wrote:
Is there someone coming to the repair workshop that can help someone recover Macintosh files from 3.5" disks? Likely they are word processing files from a Quadra.
Please let me know.
Thanks!
Jeff Brace
Thumbs up! On 5/19/2024 3:05 PM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
To give everyone an update. The man dropped off a double-sided floppy disk yesterday (5/18/24). Tony Bogan stopped by on 5/19/24 with a working Mac SE/30. I popped the disk in. It read without any problems. There were MS word documents on it they loaded fine. Tony copied them to his SD hard drive. He also took the disk for imaging. He will attach hardware so that they can be transferred to a modern format and emailed to me and then to the man.
So it all worked out in the end!
In the future I hope to learn and get the Applesauce working and hooked up to an external drive 3 1/2" as well as 5 1/4" drive. Doug hopes to get other things like Greaseweasel, etc. working and we are hoping to get help from others who know about creating an archiving setup in the museum.
Jeff Brace
On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 11:00 PM Jeffrey Brace <jeffrey@vcfed.org> wrote:
Is there someone coming to the repair workshop that can help someone recover Macintosh files from 3.5" disks? Likely they are word processing files from a Quadra.
Please let me know.
Thanks!
Jeff Brace
-- Douglas Crawford VCF Mid-Atlantic Museum Mgr InfoAge Science & History Museums 2201 Marconi Road Wall, NJ 07719
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