On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Rich Alderson <RichA at vulcan.com> wrote: Good to know... I have plenty of late 68K and early PPC Macs handy, but wasn't sure what could or could not read 400K disks. I think I still have those from somewhere (I couldn't afford a Mac when they were *NEW*, but I did manage one eventually. Nice. Those sound like fun. I know I have plenty of old 400K disks because I have yet to go through the boxes of floppies from my mother's shop. She ran "Academic Typing and Typesetting" for years, a few blocks north of Ohio State; and for the longest time, she used Mac 512K and 512Ke machines (eventually with Dove Snap boards), a couple of Mac Pluses, then finally settled on Mac SEs which she stayed with until she died in 1997. I don't think she had a single machine that I didn't open up to either repair or upgrade (or both!) over the years, including loading a "Plus" ROM set into her $5,000 original Apple LaserWriter. She never could get over the fact that her laser printer was always her most powerful computer. It wasn't until late that she had a Mac over 2.5MB of RAM. She moved up from IBM Selectric II typewriters, and to her, the Mac was foremost a machine for processing text. She never outgrew System 5 and whatever version of Word for Macintosh that ran on a Mac Plus-equivalent box even when all new Macs had color and more memory and disk in one machine than all of hers combined. She wasn't much for games, unsurprisingly, but in amongst stacks of student papers and dissertations, I hope to find a few gems tucked here and there. Her entire collection of floppies plus images of all of her machines would scarcely make a dent in a CD-ROM, so it's more the time it's going to take to read things in than anything else. Presuming one has a few hundred floppies to read in, does anyone have any favorite apps to recommend? I presume, like for the Amiga, there are preferred floppy image formats that could be used to either reconstitute real media or to feed to an emulator. Obviously, any imaging program should be able to do that, but it doesn't hurt to specifically ask. Among the (not uncommon) things I recall from her machines in the 1980s are MacPuke, the "Jive Finder", and a variety of PICTs of various anti-DOS posters. What I'm looking forward to is finding things I've long forgotten were there. -ethan