Transferring files from old PC floppy disks

I have a collection of old floppies from a PC. Although I know I won't want most of the info on them, there are treatments for various ideas I'd really like to get hold of.
I've asked in the Apple shop, they said they couldn't think of a way.
My only thought was to try to get hold of an old PC with both floppy and CD drives & copy documents that way. Then I assume I'd have to install Parallels to make them readable.
Anyone have any better ideas?
Thanks
Macula

1.44 floppy are readily available in USB form for about $20. A shareware program called "copyQM" is possibly still available that can transpose any 5 1/4 floppy to the 720/1.44 format. You will need minimum a real PC loaded with DOS 3.0 or higher, 5 1/4 floppy and 3.5 (1.44) floppy. It will also make images of the floppy disks as well. You could load those on cd's of course.
If interested contact Sydex to see if they still supply the program:
http://www.sydex.com/

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