3.5 floppy disc

You will have to find a drive that accepts them and then attach that to your computer. Just do a web search:

https://www.google.com/search?q=3.5%22+floppy+drive

It is likely the photos are in GIF or JPG format. If they are in some proprietary format then you will need to find out what kind it is and then look for some high-end software that can convert that format. I have take files in formats not used in 20+ years and found converters that worked.

ThePrestons Said:

"3.5 floppy disc: I had a camera that used 3.5 floppy disks with lots of pictures on them but I don’t know how to look at these pictures because the camera no longer works, I’m trying to pull these pictures up on my Mac computer and I don’t know how."

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Based on Personal Experience...

Finding an Apple-Compatible Drive:

I found one at a local Goodwill store. Works like a charm. Seen quite a few on craigslist over the years. So, put a "Wanted (By Owner)" post on craigslist.org in your local area.

ThePrestons wrote:

I have a Mac computer desktop, and I purchased a 3.5 floppy disc adapter with USB at the end and plugged it into my Mac desktop computer and it would not read the floppy disk it does not support the MAC computer.

It would help to know which exact model Mac. That said, it is conceivable that newer Mac systems simply no longer have the coding included to handle floppy media. It's a bit like my trying to find a hitching post to tie up a horse in the city where I live. I see many floppy drives for sale online, but they also appear to be 20 year old models. I didn't have time to read about every single one and you may have to find one that is not only Mac spcific but is also designed for running on newer Macs. There probably just isn't the market for such things. For people who have a few floppies around they may just resort to a commercial service for retrieving files, and those services probably have a stable of ancient computers they have kept for just that purpose.

When I lost went through a bunch of floppy disks about 10 years ago I found that several were degraded to the degree that data could not be recovered. You have to decide if its worth the effort.

AFAIR MS-DOS-formatted HD floppies (about 1.4 MB) needed PC Exchange extension installed on the Mac.

Then there were smaller DD floppies (about 720 - 800 kB) and the 800 kB format worked only on the Mac's old floppy drive. I still have a Mac Plus and PowerMac 8600/200 in the basement but have not booted them for a while...

Also notice that the last version of the macOS that could read HFS was Mojave. For Catalina and newer, the disk format must be at least HFS+. But obviously that camera used some non-Mac filesystem anyway.

Did you look to see if anything appeared in Disk Utility?

Matti Haveri Said:

“I still have a Mac Plus and a PowerMac 8600/200 in the basement but have booted them for a while…”

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Selling these on eBay:

You could probably get a boatload of these from selling them in eBay. Try them out, and see if they work. And then see what they go for.

Matti Haveri Said:

“[…]I still have a Mac Plus and a PowerMac 8600/200 in the basement but have booted them for a while…”

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Selling these on eBay:

You could probably get a boatload for these from selling them in eBay. Try them out, and see if they work. And then see what they go for.

Limnos Said:

“I have a G3 in the basement and could handle floppies, flash drives, SCSI, IDE, FireWire, Zip, optical media.”

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My Use of a G3:

I have one those —got it at a Goodwill store not so long ago —I use it for no more than troubleshooting. Last I touched it was a week ago —wanted to see if it read a Iomega Zip

disk from back in the day. What a surprise that was in the Zip disk!

I have a G3 in the basement. That was a wonderful machine and could handle floppies, flash drives, SCSI, IDE, Firewire, Zip, optical media.