I use this machine with DiskCopy to write the disk to. Long story short I had to source a Mac with a Superdrive (which is a floppy drive that can read/write at this variable speed and also, confusingly, the name of a newer Mac product) and found a late 90s Powermac, one of the last models before the candy-colored iMacs took over. Turns out they were written with an early Mac disk drive that physically wrote to disks in a different way than almost any other floppy drive (at a variable speed instead of a constant speed, to pack more data on the disk). I did figure out that my Windows machine didn't recognize the HFS filesystem, but the same disks were not getting read on another Ubuntu machine. I'll also chime in as a collection I imaged recently contained mostly pre-mid-90's Mac formatted 3.5' floppies. Please include your nameĪnd complete contact information, as well as your specific question. Walk, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122. You may also write us at: SCRC, Paley Library (017-00), 1210 Polett

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