Standard PC floppy hardware is fundamentally incapable of reading 800K Mac floppies. I've only used it with 1.4MB disks though, I have no Mac-formatted 800K disks to try with it. Good Mac reference site: Reply 5 of 19, by xjas Suggested MacOS versions: Classic MacOS 8.2 or later, no later than OS X 10.4.11.Īvoid Intel-based Macs (basically everything after 2005). Be sure to buy a machine that includes the original install disks *for that machine* (the bundled install disks are machine-specific), or to pick up a retail version that goes with your system. a beige Performa series Mac or older PowerBook. If you want a Mac with a build-in floppy disk drive, you'll need to look for a Mac from before those Macs, e.g. You'll need to pick up a separate USB floppy disk drive (or SuperDrive) to be able to read your floppies, more precisely a model that was made specifically for Macs. None of the brightly colored PowerPC-based Macs (be it iMacs, eMacs, iBooks) include a floppy disk drive, nor do the PowerMacs and PowerBooks from the same era, AFAIK. I'm looking to pick up a machine off of Craigslist or Ebay that could read these, what's my best/cheapest option? I'm thinking one of those garish crayola clamshell mac laptops from the late 90's should be a pretty safe bet.

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