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Re: Reading MAC 800k disks



On Fri, 19 May 95 00:25:00 UTC you wrote:
>Yeah, but the amount of profit such a device would make probably wouldn't be
>worth the time and effort necessary to make it work (assuming that it is
>possible on a PC).  That and the mere fact that it _TOTALLY_ precludes the
>use of multitasking may be difficult to deal with (many people would keep
>hollering "why doesn't it run in Windows?"  <G>).
> 
>||||| Jesse D. Sightler |||||

Why? I have a ton of Mac disks, and two of them are 800k disks (and those are printer drivers). I mean, the last mac with a 800k-only disk drive was the Mac Plus, wasn't it? I haven't seen any mac software that was only on 800k disks in quite a long time.