[vcf-midatlantic] Recovering Macintosh floppies

[Douglas Crawford]

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 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