I assume by newly acquired you don't mean one of the new G3's that is missing the floppy drive? What verion of MacOS is it running? If it's running something like 7.1 (I think that's when it was added) or later you can simply read a FAT formated floppy. Ah, just checked the other message you just sent, so you've got 7.1, and an older Mac. Hmmmm, something else to be aware of, I think you need the 1.44Mb floppy to be able to read FAT floppies, don't think that works with 800k floppies. If the FAT floppies don't work, there are utilities now that will let you read/write Mac floppies on a PC now, but I don't know anything about them. I remember using 'Executor' (Mac Emulator) under Linux several years ago when I got my first Mac, read Mac floppies on a PC. The eval version has/had a 10 minute time limit, which was long enough to let you use it for copying files. Unfortunatly I don't know what the current state of such things are as I'm writing this from a PowerMac :^) I occasionally have to worry about getting stuff from the Mac to a PC though, at which point I just toss it on one of my servers via my network (in my opinion the best method). BTW, Linux makes a great fileserver for Mac's. Please do everyone a favor and turn this off. We don't enjoy these files cluttering up our hard drives. Zane | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Adminstrator | | healyzh(a)aracnet.com (primary) | Linux Enthusiast | | healyzh(a)holonet.net (alternate) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |