How to get files off old Mac flopppies

Question

I have a stack of unhelpfully unlabeled Mac floppies from circa 2000, some of which I believe contain writing in Microsoft Word. Short of buying an old Mac and Word from that era, which I&rsquo;ve considered, do you have ideas about how to extract these files? IIRC Word files of that era did not seem to be openable with a text editor.

pwg · Accepted Answer

http://cowlark.com/fluxengine/index.html

LarryMade2 · Answer

Older Mac files might not have extensions... If you can read the files of the disk, rename the files with the .doc extension. Once done you probably have a good chance reading them in newer Word or LibeOffice programs.
If you can;t read the disks - you might need to get a Mac and a floppy drive - 1.4mb isnt too hard, you could probably get a USB floppy to read those; when you are talking about 800k or 400k disks you will have to look for an older mac to read the disks as the drive mechs/logic are a bit different.
If the computer is that old getting data transferred would probably be easiest with a modem-modem connection, or a null-modem cable.