Crutch
Well-known member
Semi random question. I periodically find myself acquiring old floppies I want to archive to the Garden or elsewhere. Historically I've done this by making a disk image from my SE/30 and Wifi'ing it over to my modern Mac.
But I'm lazy, and don't love putting precious old floppies (which in a few cases contain otherwise unavailable software) into a vintage floppy drive which, while well maintained, could always fail. (Also I don't love the idea of sticking random floppies that might have mysterious gunk or damage on them into my very nice SE/30!)
Would love tips on the "right" way to archive the contents of a modern floppy without involving a vintage machine. I think @LaPorta has some knowledge here? Is here a doohickey I can hook up to a modern Mac to get a full bit-for-bit dump of an old 400K floppy that I can then just archive somewhere?
But I'm lazy, and don't love putting precious old floppies (which in a few cases contain otherwise unavailable software) into a vintage floppy drive which, while well maintained, could always fail. (Also I don't love the idea of sticking random floppies that might have mysterious gunk or damage on them into my very nice SE/30!)
Would love tips on the "right" way to archive the contents of a modern floppy without involving a vintage machine. I think @LaPorta has some knowledge here? Is here a doohickey I can hook up to a modern Mac to get a full bit-for-bit dump of an old 400K floppy that I can then just archive somewhere?