[vcf-midatlantic] Recovering Macintosh floppies

[Jeffrey Brace]

On Fri, May 10, 2024 at 8:14 AM David Ryskalczyk <d235j.1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> There is an Applesauce at the museum that may be usable for this. I can’t
> remember if it has a 3.5” drive that can be connected to it.
>

The Applesauce works, but there is no Apple computer working to connect to
it, so it is unusable until that happens.

Tony Bogan will lend us a Mac SE/30 so that I can at least read the disk
and see what is on it.
Then I can go from there.
Thanks!


> > On May 10, 2024, at 8:02 AM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <
> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
> >
> > 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 at 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
>