[vcf-midatlantic] Recovering Macintosh floppies

[Andrew Diller]

There is an apple computer to connect to it- the Apple Powerbook that I donated a few years ago. It was connected to the Applesauce at one point and was used to read some floppies.

The SE/30 isn't going to help if there are any issues w/ the floppy itself (high probability). The Applesauce will keep trying and recover what it can, the SE/30 will just eject the disk on the first error it encounters.

So if the disks _are_ 100% perfect the SE/30 will read them. But what are you going to do then? Moving them to another more modern system won't be possible unless the SE/30 has ethernet. Then you can connect to the AppleShare server that BenK and I setup for the BBS system on that network. You will also need appropriate software apps on the SE/30 to open the documents (if you can read them, if the floppy is 100% good).

The best path is to use the Applesauce to pull a flux image and then use a virtual Mac (appropriate OS version to run the right App version) with the appropriate software that can read the save documents (i.e. Word 4 perhaps).

Those are my suggestions.

-andy

> On May 12, 2024, at 11:39 PM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
> 
> 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
>>