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I have a bunch of old Mac floppies, from whatever System was common in 1995. I've been wanting to get this data off of these floppies for some time but feet dragging has led to the current state where powering up my two ancient Mac monitors resulted in distinctive frying electronics sounds and the old laptop I have won't start.
So I have the floppies. :) A hundred or so of them, in fact.
I do not currently have a computer with a floppy drive. I could buy something, then figure out how to get all of the data off, then go through the old files and try to extract the text, but it seems like there's probably a company out there that can do this for me. Does anyone have any data retrieval experience, can you point me to a company who can get this data off of these floppies and even better convert the MacWrite and WordPerfect files to, well, anything modern?
1You're probably SOL. Floppies weren't designed to be archival media lasting a decade and a half. The magnetic material has probably degraded so much that you'll have a hell of a time getting the data off intact. – Spiff – 2011-08-03T07:51:14.310