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Re: 800k disks possible at all?



> is there anyway through additional hardware that i can read these
> disks? my former Mac system was a Plus (long time ago) and for some
> reason i oddly want to get at all my old font diskettes.. 

The Mac 800k format uses variable speed drives, so you need a variable
speed drive, with suitable software, to be able to read these disks on
non-Mac machines. Central Point used to sell their Copy II Option Board
for the PC which did this on a standard PC drive, but I believe it was
withdrawn because it also allowed copy-protected software to be copied.

Digby James


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