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Oct 5, 2014 10:40 PM in response to ponocatby Jan Hedlund,As you have discovered, a USB floppy drive is not capable of reading the special 800K Macintosh format (on DSDD/2DD diskettes). The same is true for a PC floppy drive. The reason for this is that the 800K Macintosh format requires a drive with a variable speed.
What you need is a pre-1998 Macintosh desktop or PowerBook with a built-in floppy drive. A Macintosh computer from approx. 1991 to 1997 will have a floppy drive that can handle both 800K and 1.44 MB (earlier models could read maximum 800K).
Jan
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Oct 6, 2014 7:29 AM in response to Jan Hedlundby ponocat,Thanks for the prompt and useful reply. I will look for a service company that has such machines to read my disks.