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Re: Reading 800k Floppies on ...
Cine Excel replies:
Please tell me more about this. This has been a major pain for me here as
our macs are SEs' and all I ever get from people is "You can not format or
read an 800k disk on your PC 'cause of the drive" Never mind the fact that I
can read 720k (740?) PC disks and/or 1.44 and take the 720 to our Amiga and
it reads. Never mind the fact that it can read both high Density and normal
disks. I am thankful to hear about this "Deluxe Option Board" as now maybe I
can truely get a multi format set up going. The way I have to do it now is
use Mac-n-dos to format, Executor to move files (Mac-n-dos does it too
but...) and then one of the fellows that works here brings in his Mac laptop
and puts the file on it and then formats an 800k disk on the SE and puts
that....well, you get the idea. Argggghhhhhhh!!!!!!
SO basicly...tell me everything you can about this product. Is it an add in
board? Or software only? Thanks fer the time.
Cine Excel
cexcel@aol.com
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Well, this is a small half sized board that plugs into a slot and attaches
between my disk controller and floppies/tape drive.
It allows me to copy protected disks, speeds up my tape drive and lets me
read/write/format Mac 800k diskettes with simple commands:
DOS MAC
----------------------------------------
DIR MDIR
FORMAT MFORMAT
CD MCD
etc....
I didn't know the board was discontinued as upgraded software is posted every
so often on Central Points BBS.
I would call Central Point to be sure...
- Al Hartman -
Computer Expressions