My first Mac

[John Foust]

At 11:42 PM 1/1/2007, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
>Well, let me put it this way -- my 7100 (the one I attempted mkLinux on)
>is now banished to OS 9 and acting as an AppleTalk server for the old Macs
>that have trouble speaking to the Panther file server.

I fired up my 7200 the other day.  I wanted to try to recover an old floppy 
from a client who claimed it had some Illustrator artwork on it.  The disk 
had the 'HD' (CH) logo but I couldn't read it in either of two HD Mac drives 
of that era.

What floppy disk recovery / probing tools might I use to see
if I can recover the artwork?

My old IIci wouldn't boot when I took it from storage, with or 
without its PPC add-on card.  I even tried booting it with the 7200's 
drive.  Just a question-mark disk icon.

A few weeks before, I'd tried to read an old Amiga drive from the same era.  
No go.  Both drives were old Quantum 80s.  Are these known to decay in 
a certain way?

- John