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Need Geek Help
I would like to access a number of old documents that I archived years ago on 3.5" diskettes. I believe they were created in Wordperfect.
Is there some easy way to get these up on my Powerbook, on which I am running a current version of Microsoft Office? Does anyone even make drives for these old diskettes?
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08-23-2007, 08:17 AM
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yea you can get them at about any best buy or office store just make sure they r mac friendly make sure to make a cd copy and a hard drive copy and keep the flopys incase
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=6307436&st=floppy+drive&type=product&id=1074787976171 good luck
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08-23-2007, 08:22 AM
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Good luck reading those disks - floppies are notoriously unreliable over time.
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08-23-2007, 08:28 AM
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Do you have access to a PC with a floppy drive?
If so slap em in there and stick em on a ThumbDrive. You can get multi GB thumbdrives for less than the floppy reader and you can use it for all manner of other things. You might try taking them to a "friendly" computer store, buy a thumb drive (so you've spent money there) and ask to "borrow" a display unit with floppy to do your copy.
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08-23-2007, 08:31 AM
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08-23-2007, 08:36 AM
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Many thanks for those very helpful replies!
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08-23-2007, 10:25 AM
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If you have access to a PC with a floppy drive you could load them onto it and attach them to an email to yourself.
Hate to say it but like Thom says floppies do go bad. 
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