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Jan 17, 2010 11:54 AM in response to gwb21471by Jan Hedlund,Hi,
You can use the floppy drive for transfers of smaller files. The existing operating system should have a PC Exchange control panel in the Control Panels folder. This means that PC-formatted floppies can be used directly. Just keep the files downloaded on a PC unaltered; that is, do not try to decode or decompress anything until on the Mac. Once on the Mac, decode MacBinary (.bin) and BinHex (.hqx) files by dragging them onto (or opening them from within) StuffIt Expander.
If no appropriate version of StuffIt Expander for Macintosh is available, try this: Use a PC to download the MACDISK.EXE file here. Prepare an empty PC-formatted 1.44 MB diskette via FORMAT A: in DOS or the full formatting option under Windows. Launch the MACDISK.EXE program on the PC. Follow the on-screen directions. The result will be a Mac-formatted disk with a ready-to-use StuffIt Expander 4.0.1 installer.
You will find two versions of Disk Copy here. Disk First Aid 7.2.2 can be found here.
A bootable floppy is always good to have at hand. The Disk Tools PPC (here) is OK for this purpose. Launch Disk Copy 6.3.3, and use the Make a Floppy command in the Utilities menu.
If necessary, look for a fresh (US) System 7.5.3 here. No need for any Disk Copy programs in this case.
Also, please note that you can use a standard CompactFlash memory card in a PC Card adapter for CF (such as this example). If you have a USB card reader attached to a modern computer, this is an easy and fast way of transferring files.
Jan