[vcf-midatlantic] Recovering Macintosh floppies

[Douglas Crawford]

Yes the Mac Mini could be attached, but it has
given us trouble too just operating reliably.
So it was taken out of service a year ago.

On 5/13/2024 4:52 PM, Alexander Jacocks via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
> The Applesauce is the right tool, and we should have the Mac Mini attached
> to the device that Tony donated, in addition to Andy's PowerBook.
> 
> - Alex
> 
> On Mon, May 13, 2024 at 11:12 AM Wil via vcf-midatlantic <
> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
> 
>> I would look into one of these https://webstore.kryoflux.com/catalog/ a
>> kryoflux. There is also greaseweasel as an alternative. Basically it does a
>> image at such a low level, it can copy anything, including all the best
>> copy protection methods from back in the day for floppies. Doesn't matter
>> what platform the disk is formated to.
>>
>> I am not 100 percent sure but pretty sure you can then find tools to
>> extract the image for use in a emulator or otherwise find tools to extract
>> the files.  This is much more likely to be easy to experiment extraction
>> virtual or as you say mount on a Mac emulator and screen shot the files.
>>
>> On May 13, 2024 10:55, Andrew Diller via vcf-midatlantic <
>> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>>>
>>
>>
>>

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Douglas Crawford
VCF Mid-Atlantic Museum Mgr
InfoAge Science & History Museums
2201 Marconi Road
Wall, NJ 07719