Re: Who still uses floppies these days?

["thewises" <thewises@enter.net>]

 >> I believe I have 6-8 5.25 inch floppies. I do not believe there is a way 
to
>> open the disks on a modern PC or Mac.  Or is there?
>
> If you have a PC, you can always attach a 5.25" floppy drive.  The
> cables and connectors are still there.  ;-)

Not really. XP will still recognize 5.25" drives, but most recent PCs have a 
floppy ribbon cable that only has a connector for one drive. You'd have to 
get a floppy cable with 5.25" connectors. Anyway, a 5.25" drive looks pretty 
silly inside a modern PC case.

>> I know OSX cant read ProDOS, and I doubt XP can.
>
> XP can read ProDOS disks fine if you have CiderPress--an amazingly
> versatile shareware program (Google it for details).

Again, not really. CiderPress can only read 720k or 1.44MB(ie. MFM) ProDOS 
disks. PC floppy controllers are physically incapable of reading GCR disks.