According to the paragraph 'And What About DD Floppy Disks?', towards the bottom, the only way to read data off of 400K/800K floppies is to find a functioning Macintosh with a floppy drive that has GCR coding (Group Coded Recording) and variable spindle speed functionality.īy the 28th I finally understood the 3.5 floppy disk zoo. The first significant lead I came across on my journy was this article.
My goal however was to make all this vintage data and software maybe not useful but at least usable again. Lo-and-behold using the correct power supply fixed the first easy problem. This felt power related so I looked up the correct power cord online and bought one. The first problem I ran into though was when a floppy was put in, if the screen brightness was anything above minimum the device would just click off immediately. I had no idea if it was going to boot or if any of the data including on the floppies could ever be useful again. I inherited a Mac PowerBook 165c in August 2019 accompanied by a crate of 3.5 floppies. These computers were based on the Motorola 680x0 microchip.
Welcome to my page on when I found a way to image the data off of (the first computer I ever used) a 1993 Macintosh PowerBook 165c. Macintosh 1993 Macintosh PowerBook Forensics
