Obviously a late Power Mac/PowerBook is the easiest, since they tend to have Ethernet, and can support PCI or PC Card USB cards. If you're meaning a device that lets you read/write physical 800k floppies on a modern computer - no such luck.Īs for "interim" computers, any Mac that originally came with a built-in floppy drive that is later than the SE or Macintosh II supports 1.4, 800k, and 400k floppies all the way up to the beige Power Macintosh G3 or the PowerBook G3s. FloppyEmu supports 1.4 MB images, 800k images, and 400k images (as well as Apple II 5.25" disk formats when plugged in to an Apple II,) as well as pretending to be Apple's floppy-disk-interface hard drive, the HD20. Put your disk images on SD card, put the SD card in the FloppyEmu, plug the FloppyEmu in to your old Mac, and select the floppy image on the FloppyEmu's interface. You're asking about a "floppy emulator" - you mean a device that you plug in to the old computer that has flash memory and pretends to be a floppy drive? There absolutely are those! The most notable one is the FloppyEmu for about $100. Purchase hardware designed specifically for disk imaging floppy disks, such as a Kryoflux. There are two options available for dealing with this problem: 1. (Unless you happen to have a 512k e, which does support 800k.) The Library recently acquired Apple Mac-formatted Floppy Disks that could not be read on our modern Digital Acquisitions PC or Apple MacBook Pro using a generic external USB floppy drive. Notes: Weight of this system varies based on the accessories installed. On the other end, the 512k doesn't even support 800k disks! It only supports 400k single-sided. Alternately, linux-pmac can be booted from a floppy disk or with BootX. (Although note that there are some issues moving files between Windows and old Mac OS systems - namely the "resource fork" gets lost on DOS-formatted floppies, so you need to wrap them in an HQX file.) PowerBook G3 (PDQ) yes (C) yes (U) PowerMac iMac G3 (All Models) no yes (BX). So you can use a USB floppy drive on a modern computer to put files on the floppy disk, and put it directly in the SE/30 and copy to the hard drive. Running the right OS (7.1 or later with "PC Exchange" extension) it can even read/write DOS-formatted floppies just fine. SE/30 (as opposed to SE) has a 1.4 MB "Superdrive" as Apple called it.
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