External floppy disk drives for the new iMac?

I'm trying to move a whole slew of files I created on a Macintosh from a longtime back--the original Mac--and they are all saved on floppy disks. I recently bought a Sony MPF88E not knowing it didn't work with the new Leopard OS. Are there any external floppy drives out there that do work with the new OS?

Hello and Welcome to Apple Discussions. 
I just dug out my +TEAC FD-05PUB+ (which I originally bought for an iMac DV running OS 9.0.4!). It works fine* on my Aluminium Intel iMac 2.8GHz.
I'm not sure why the Sony wouldn't work. Does it appear in System Profiler and/or Disk Utility?
mrtotes
* by fine, I mean normal, but I'd forgotten how bad floppy disks are...

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