Sounds like I'll need to install 7.5 and see what happens... Thanks everyone for the
quick answers
Curt
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces at
classiccmp.org on behalf of Mr Ian Primus
Sent: Sat 2/5/2011 6:49 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Mac's and 400K diskettes
--- On Sat, 2/5/11, Curt @ Atari Museum <curt at atarimuseum.com> wrote:
Does anyone know if Powermac's will read older 400K mac
diskettes???
The PowerMac will. System 8.1 will not. They dropped support for 400K disks in System 7.6.
So, you'll need to have 7.5 or older installed to read data from them. IIRC, DiskCopy
will still make images of the 400K disks, even though the OS won't read them.
-Ian