SillyDog701

[hartlandcat]

Okay, so I'm completely new to Macs...

I have a tray loading iMac -- I've noticed that it doesn't seem to have a floppy drive. Basically, if I create a file on my Mac and decide that I want to save it onto something so it can then be opened on another computer, how do I do this? I obviously can't use a floppy... is the CD-ROM drive also a rewriter?

Thanks! ^_^

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[DJGM]

Macs haven't had floppy drives since the iMac was first introduced in 1998!

I assume the iMac you have there is one of the original colored CRT iMac's?

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[Antony]

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I obviously can't use a floppy... is the CD-ROM drive also a rewriter?

Thanks! ^_^

If the CD-ROM drive is also a writer, it will be mentioned.
For the early models of iMac, you can buy USB external storage device (not really recommended) or transfer via network.
All Macs are ship with network ports since the early days.

There's something called USB Flash Disk or USB Key. I got a 256MB version and it is pretty hendy for me.

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[hartlandcat]

I assume the iMac you have there is one of the original colored CRT iMac's?

I assume so... it's tray loading and it's in bondi blue.

Oh yeah... I've heard of those flash disk things. So, why do Macs not have floppy drives anymore?

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[Antony]

So, why do Macs not have floppy drives anymore?

They could see the future. I myself haven't used floppies for at least 1.5 years.

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[Alice]

I'm new to Macs also.. my husband got one last year and I occasionally use it.. My husband bought a "SmartDisk" USB floppy drive at the Apple retail store when he bought his Ibook but we only used it a couple of times, for transferring a few files from our Windows machine.

Later on we got a Sandisk (ImageMate SDDR-31) USB Compact Flash card reader, to use with our digital camera. It was an old model card reader we got in a camera shop and the included software worked on our Win95b machine's version of USB. As luck would have it, the same CF card reader also worked natively on Mac OSX without needing to install any software.

A CF card reader is also a writer so I've used it to copy and transfer files from the Windows machine to the iBook. I got a separate 128 MB flash card and use it just for file transfers since the digital camera-formatted cf card causes iPhoto to open on the iBook. The card reader is always connected to the Windows pc now, and I use it for data backup since we don't have a CD-writer on it and floppies are just too limited space-wise. The CF card reader shows up on the pc as " Removable Disk (D )" in My computer and is just like having another hard drive as far as copying files goes.

Flash card readers are pretty cheap, around $20 - $30 - the flash cards can easily cost more than the reader, although they're getting cheaper.

This Apple page lists some media readers that work worth Iphoto:
http://www.apple.com/switch/questions/p ... meras.html My Sandisk reader isn't listed but it worked anyway If you have an Apple retail store in your area I would check there.

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