Paul Stenquist wrote:
Mac OSX can read Apple II files from the IIe and IIc as well. Anything
that's in PRODOS format. I don't think it will read the original DOS 3
files. I have quite a few PRODOS files that I moved over to the Mac.. I
needed one a few years ago to prove authorship of some advertising I
wrote for Mercedes back in the early eighties. Some people who had hoped
to dismiss my claim were surprised to learn I had files complete with
creation dates that were over twenty years old.
Paul
I have since dumped all my really old (ca.1986) floppies, so cannot
check out how they might act with OSX, but...I do quite clearly recall
that during the days when I was using OS 7.x and OS 8.x on my various
Macs, those OS would NOT read IIGS files of any kind.
The finder told me the floppies were not readable.
Since I've installed OSX, I've not tried to read any old (pre-OS 5.x)
floppies. I gave up on them a long time ago as a lost cause.
keith
On Jan 7, 2006, at 5:46 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
On Jan 7, 2006, at 2:09 PM, keith_w wrote:
Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
I moved my entire archives that go back to 1983, stored on 400-500
3.5" floppies, to a single CD almost a decade ago....
Impressive.
Of what did/does it comprise?
All manner of text and other files, such as images, spreadsheets,
etc., all thrown together?
And once moved to the CD, all are readable?
Yes.
Pretty awesome, when you think about it.
Especially since a lot of the types of files one saves don't have a
proper file reader available today.
I used to have a lot of files saved from working with them on my
Apple IIGS. Not readable as of several years ago. I threw away the
floppies.
I suppose I'll hear that "so and so" can read IIGS files, after the
fact, but there you are.
Mac OS volume formats (MFS, HFS, HFS Plus, HFS Extended) are
completely readable all the way back to the original in 1983-4 given a
compatible drive (you have to use an external floppy drive since 2001
or so). I believe Mac OS X can read Apple IIGS volumes too. Of course,
Mac OS X reads all modern file system volumes (FAT, FAT32, UFS, NTFS,
ISO9660, etc etc).
Godfrey
