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| Author | My little adventure of reading DOS floppies on 7.6 with PC Exchange (Read 6787 times) | ||||||
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Bolkonskij
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on: October 31, 2022, 15:47
You'd never think someone would bother with trying to read a DOS/Windows floppy disk on a Macintosh these days. But my neighbour (a three decade long PC user) gave me his box full of floppy disks (about 200 or something) for free when cleaning up. Most of them are just used blanks, but there's one floppy I'd like to read because it has two 25 year old photos of our house on it. I was under the impression that System 7.6 comes with built-in extensions to handle those floppies (PC Exchange). So I popped in the disk and ... all I got was a "this disk is unreadable. Want to initialize it?". Hmm.. is my 8600's floppy drive failing on me? Inserted a random Mac floppy. No, that one shows up. So I head to the control panels where PC Exchange resides and .... well, it's gone! Turns out, during my last sweeping operation of unuseful extensions and control panels I deleted it. because who'd ever try to read a PC floppy on Mac OS these days, right?  )Luckily, I did not really delete it but just pushed it into a 2nd disabled folder as it is often times advised. So two mouseclicks and a reboot later it just showed up the "PC" icon of the floppy disk when entering and I could push over the two JPG files from the floppy to my Mac. Lesson learnt: never delete your extensions / control panels, no matter how unuseful they might look *right now* Also digging Apple for the seemless support of PC floppy disks. This is hardly an argument today, but back then, this was really useful and cool stuff. It's just like entering a Mac floppy disk. That wasn't all so common back in 1996. |
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Last Edit: October 31, 2022, 15:49 by Bolkonskij
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Knezzen
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Administrator 512 MB Posts: 608 Village idiot
Reply #1 on: October 31, 2022, 15:51
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Great that you made a post about this! It's easy to forget these little built in utilities when you "clean" your install. Good to make people remember by making a forum post about it 
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