My current system, BTW, is not from Apple (it's a "PC", and not an Apple-based one - the term "PC" has always bothered me - Apples were personal computers too). And even if I did, I know Apple 5.25" drives are incompatible with IBM/PC drives possibly at a hardware level, so I don't know if it would have been useful.Ĭan anyone help me figure out if there's a cost effective device for extracting the data from these old Apple ][ disks from the 1980s (they're almost all still functional - I just tried them yesterday again!)? I could elect to rely on a data recovery service, but then I would have to hold on to my system long enough to sort out what disks I want to recover data from before I send it away, so ideally, I'd like to be able to perform this recovery myself. I thought I once saw 5.25" USB floppy drives on Thinkgeek that might have been useful in such a data recovery process, but I can't find them any more. Before I send this off I'd like to know that someday I might be able to get at that software again myself. It's confirmed that Windows 11 can still read ancient floppy disk, including 5.25' ones. I have an old Franklin Ace 2100 Apple-compatible computer that I'm about to send off to a museum, but I also have a bunch of homemade software that they're not interested in and can't help me recover. Theoretically a standard 3.5' MS-DOS/PC-DOS floppy disk is using good ol' FAT file format (FAT12), so you may first try to access it directly on a Mac. It's like Apple is a different company than it was when it produced the computer I'm talking about, so I'm not sure this is the intended topic of discussion here, but this is a question about Apple hardware, so here I go.
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