#MARCHintosh 2025

Although a bit late to the party, I wanted to participate in the #MARCHintosh challenge of 2025

I set up a nice spot on my desk for my Macintosh Plus and my idea was to write some Macintosh-related articles directly on it, take them out and publish them on my blog.

The Macintosh Plus is using only DD floppy disks, both single-sided and double-sided, at 360 and 720KB, and it cannot read or write the commonly used HD floppies (the 1.4MB ones), thus making it hard to move files in and out of the Macintosh Plus. And because trouble never comes alone, the laptop I was using to easily transfer files between the Macintosh Plus and the modern computers (a 1995 Powerbook 5300cs) has officially died. So until then, I have no other ability to take the articles I write on the Macintosh and publish them on my site. Additionally, keeping in mind that the Rodime Systems Hard Disk is also about 40 years old, I am very afraid that sooner or later it will fatally crash and I will lose all the data on it. It’s only 20 Megabytes, but some time ago, it meant a lot.

So if you see more posts about #MARCHintosh, it means I found out a way to pull the files out of the 40 year old desktop. If not, just enjoy some of the photos below.

So without further ado, I started to look on my Computers page in order to find computers that have floppy disk drives, that I can use to read those floppies. The initial task is to find a computer that will firstly read the Double Density diskettes.

  • Gateway Handbook 486 (1992) - this doesn’t work, on the account of the battery being busted and the entire charging circuit going through it.
  • IBM Thinkpad T23 (2001) - I was absolutely positive this laptop has a floppy drive. Well, it doesn’t.
  • Toshiba Libretto 100CT (1996), because I have a PCMCIA floppy drive for this - I tested this and it doesn’t seem to
  • Sony Vaio - PCG-9K2M - Tried using software like TransMac, but Windows XP is unable to read the Mac-formatted floppy, although it works with DD floppies.