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Re: Font Management Options

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From: Neil_Keller
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 23:43
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Rodney,

I'm in the long, slow process of retrieving fonts off ancient 800K Adobe and other floppies (from back in the days when each disk came with a unique software serial number you could register!)

Iomega's Website says that their floppy drives can read "all floppies" and I bought one -- but found that on a Mac running OS X, they can only read 1.4 MB floppies. And ditto for an older VSB(?) brand. I called Iomega and told 'em "Baloney!" and all they could offer me was an apology and a refund.

But it occurred to me that I still have an old G4 tower Mac running OS 9 that is being prepared for the trash heap. I know it reads 800K and 1.4MB floppies. I'm commandeering that machine and firing it up until all my font floppies are copied over to CD or DVD media. And before the floppies deteriorate to unreadability (as all magnetic media will).

Neil
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From: Neil_Keller@adobeforums.com
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Subject: Re: Font Management Options
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