Tokyo police lose 2 floppy disks containing info on public housing applicants

Re:Tokyo police lose 2 floppy disks containing info on publi... by reaperducer on Thursday December 30, 2021 @02:29PM (#29740421)

Won't help if the finder of the floppies has a Mac. I have a bunch of old floppy disks, but from what I've read online, you can't even hook a USB floppy drive to a Mac anymore. All that code is gone from the OS.

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Re:Tokyo police lose 2 floppy disks containing info on publi... by lreeves on Thursday December 30, 2021 @02:31PM (#29740448)

You can install VirtualBox and pass the USB floppy device through to any OS that can read it.

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Re:Tokyo police lose 2 floppy disks containing info on publi... by abakker on Thursday December 30, 2021 @02:47PM (#29740646)

As long as it’s not an M1. I tried recently to read some old CDroms that were formatted for OS9. Not a straightforward process to read those old file systems. And, if you have an M1, you then need to have a w OS that runs on the arm chip. Or, you can use qemu to install os9 in full emulation. What a PITA.

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Re:Tokyo police lose 2 floppy disks containing info on publi... by mcguire on Thursday December 30, 2021 @03:07PM (#29740849)

IIRC, really old Macs got extra storage out of a floppy by spinning the disc faster when the read/write heads were on the outer tracks. Made them a wee bit difficult to read on any other hardware.

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