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Received: from relay1.geis.com (relay1.geis.com [192.77.188.2]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id SAA04865 for <executor@nacm.com>; Thu, 18 May 1995 18:06:32 -0700 From: g.sightler@genie.geis.com Received: by relay1.geis.com (1.37.109.11/15.6) id AA299245585; Fri, 19 May 1995 01:06:25 GMT Message-Id: <199505190106.AA299245585@relay1.geis.com> Date: Fri, 19 May 95 00:25:00 UTC To: executor@nacm.com Subject: Reading MAC 800k disks X-Genie-Id: 1913903 X-Genie-From: G.SIGHTLER Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk Cliff, >Well it certainly won't happen between now and when 2.0 comes out. >Even then I'm not sure that the PC has the same sort of control over >the floppy disk that the Amigas did. After 2.0 comes out we'd >probably be willing to pay some $$ to get this functionality, but I'd >also guess that just a simple program to read 800k Mac disks on a PC >would also generate some revenue, which then begs the question "if >it's doable, why hasn't someone done it?" Specifically, why hasn't >someone written a program for the PC which reads an 800k formatted >floppy (writing is much less important). 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 |||||