Ideas for accessing old Mac disks, zip, etc?

All I have from my Performa 460 is a number of 3 1/2 floppy disks and one or zip disk where I just copied the contents of the Mac HD over to the zip Disk. I mostly want the data on the disks and the old emails from Outook express for the Mac.

I am wondering about the best way to access that info? Should I get a mini Mac, or try any of the Mac on PC emulators, or is there a Mac file system to PC file system convertor out there?

Any ideas?

You're trying to access Mac files on a Win system?

With a Windows system I have Mac floppies and a zip drive

I should add, most of what I want is Word documents, Outlooks express emails, ect, but all in Mac Classic OS format.

I guess another important question is where are you going to get the hardware to read the disk?

I have the zip disk HW, but now Mac floppy, I understand many emualtor programs allow a PC floppy to read Mac disks.

I just remembered that I actually have a lot of text documents created by MacWrite, and a Delrina Fax program.

Since this was all done on the classic OS, I am thinking the best way to access this data is to get a $40 to $60 PowerPC or G3 off of ebay. That would probably be the simplest way.

Wait a second, as I recall, it was possible to run a Mac from a zip disk with the operating system on it? I am pretty sure I did it, then I might be able to get what is left of my performa going once more.

You can try MacDrive, it lets you read and write Mac formatted disks, dvd etc. from Windows.

http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive6/