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?

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=pro duct&id=1074787976171

good luck

Good luck reading those disks - floppies are notoriously unreliable over time.

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.

Good idea and if you have one or two that give a "read error" then you might try Norton Disk doctor to try and correct the data on the floppies before moving the info over to the USB drive.

Many thanks for those very helpful replies!

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. :(