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Re: Mac 2 PC



In article <4iouuu$lhq@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU>
firmin@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au (Lyndon Bernard Firmin ) writes:

>  I am in search of a piece of software that can
> read 800k Mac disk for my PC.. If any one has any information on 
> the software that I need could you please email me..
>         firmin@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au
> Thank you..
>         Lyndon.

I believe that this is impossible due to hardware limitations on PC
floppy drives. You can read Mac 1.44 mb disks on a PC drive, but the
Mac uses a goofy drive mechanism and goofy disk format to squeeze 800k
onto a low density disk (whereas PC low density disks are only 720k);
PC drives cannot read this format.  The software you want cannot be
written.

-Eric Bennett (ericb@pobox.com)

Drawing on my fine command of the language, I said nothing.
-Robert Benchley


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