Re: Converting Mac disks from 1997 to PC

Warren Oates wrote:
> If these are 1.4 meg floppies, you can buy a cheap USB floppy drive
at > Radio Shack (The Source in Canada) and you should be able to
copy them > to one big "Mac and PC" CD-R (each floppy wold be one
folder on the > CD-R). You shouldn't need MacLink. Once they're in
the PC, MS Office > will convert them to the latest format.

I think some disks are low-density (~750kb) and some are the 1.4 meg
hi density ones. I am fairly sure they were formatted for Mac so are
you sure MS-Office will read them if I transfer them to CD? Will any
Mac do once I purchase the USB floppy drive?

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