I need to copy some of my documents that I saved a while back before I had this computer to my iMac. How can I do this?
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My iMac came without a floppy drive.
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No iMac... even the original iMac from 1997 came with out a floppy drive. It's old tech. Put the data on a thumb drive.
Get a USB Floppy Disk Drive, that should solve the problem. And as said before, the iMac got rid of Floppy Drives.
1998 not 1997.
I might be wrong about this, but I think that support for floppy disks was dropped from OS X, can't remember which version though.
USB Floppy Drives are supported in Leopard. That OS X Hints post is from 2001 (OS X 10.0.4)!
Get a USB Floppy Drive and plug it in to your computer. Do a little research beforehand to make sure it will work with OSX, but you should be fine. A Windows machine probably won't work if the disks are Macintosh-formatted.
Get a USB Floppy Drive and plug it in to your computer. Do a little research beforehand to make sure it will work with OSX, but you should be fine. A Windows machine probably won't work if the disks are Macintosh-formatted.
You can still buy them. They are pretty crappy compared to the ones made in the 90's
Last time I used a floppy was in 2007. I had a teacher who required our project to be turned on a floppy. I had to go out and buy a a pack of floppies to turn it in. I still have them in a box somewhere.
It was just a word document but the guy was old school and would not allow us to email them in. I was glad I put the $10 insurance in my desktop I built in summer of 04.