can floppy disks ( 3 1/4 inch) using an Imation superdisk (old floppy disk reader) be read on OSX macbook Air?
I recall managing in the not too distant past. linking the super disk to a USB port, on my Air ( before installing el capitan ) and reading floppy disks made on bulbous iMacs (pre 2001)
MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2013), OS X El Capitan (10.11.3)
THis is really a Mac OS X question. Classic has nothng to do with it. I am asking your thread go to the El Capitan forum, since your signature says you are running it.
I would be very surprised if it ever worked on OSX seeing the last driver was from 1999 and was written for OS Classic.
All you can do is to try it and see if it will work. You can't expect many people here to still be using almost 20 year old technology.
I have a no-name 3.5 inch USB floppy reader that I purchased for my iMac DV SE back in 1999. It remains a functional, plug-n-play device that still works with OS X 10.11.5 to read floppies from that era.
Plug yours in and try it. There will be nothing on the Desktop until you insert the floppy, and it is successfully read. I am reading floppies from 1996. Make certain that you have all relevant check boxes selected in the Finder Preferences : General.
He's not talking about 3.5 floppies, he is talking about the Imation Super disks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperDisk
Hi Lanny - I had some Super Disks way back, but I do not have them now. No - I am referring to the normal 1.44mb and .288mb ordinary - commonly used floppy disks aka diskettes which many pentium computers and Apple desktops used for storage in the 80s and 90s.. The ones I have contain mostly documents and spreadsheets written in ClarisWorks - the standard works package used in Apple desktops and iMacs in that era.
Games are also on these diskettes as they were called, and the three Apples I have - an LcII bought in 1992 and two iMacs - blueberry and graphite are slot loading CD machines sold between about 1996 and 2002. These are still in perfect working order, and have given sterling service to me and others ever since, and I expect them to go one until some component wears out - most unlikely - these products were IMHO designed with longevity in mind - no expense spared by the manufacturer.
Then why did you describe them as 3.25 floppy Imation Super Disks?
3.5 floppy disks are still supported in El Capitan with a working USB floppy drive.
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