Drives stick - sharp rap needed to start but.Apple File System (APFS) preview in current beta OS.Sept 1985 to support first HD20 hard drive.HFS - Hierarchical File System - Mac OS Standard.MFS - Original Mac File System for floppy disks -1984. In addition, I will provide information on methods to repair the old failed hardware and Mac OS emulation. I will also discuss some new replacement hardware such as a floppy disk emulator and a SCSI controller that can store thousands of floppy images on a micro-SD card and replace the failed drives. I will review my techniques of archiving old floppies, creating image files to restore from and managing the collection to find what I have. In this discussion, I will present my methods of dealing with this old technology. I have also accumulated over 800 floppy disks of software and data, again many of which are failing. I’m finding out that many don’t work anymore, most due to failed hard drives, power supplies or other electrical components. Recently, I decided to clear out some and refine my collection. If I had purchased all of these, I would have spent over $140,000 and probably be single. I have been using Macintosh computers for 32 years and have accumulated over 50 Macs from the 1985 Mac 512k to a 2-year-old Mac Mini.
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