Thank you. I was looking at 50 to 80 pin adapters and those would cost about the same and probably maintain or reduce speed.

I'm becoming increasingly excited about getting this thing working, but I'm still stuck on how to get files off of there. There's no network card, no modem to speak of, obviously no USB port and all my other computers are PC's. I've looked around for freeware programs to read mac fl oppies but HFSexplorer won't open a floppy disk.

I'm a writer and I plan to use the Quadra as my main writing computer but I need to make sure I can get my stuff off of there on a regular basis for backups and printing and that sort of thing, so file formats and file systems are a big concern. HMMMMM.