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Received: from arthur.cs.purdue.edu (arthur.cs.purdue.edu [128.10.2.1]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id VAA20595 for <executor@nacm.com>; Sun, 25 Jun 1995 21:51:06 -0700 Received: from lab11.cs.purdue.edu (root@lab11.cs.purdue.edu [128.10.11.111]) by arthur.cs.purdue.edu (8.6.10/PURDUE_CS-1.3) with ESMTP id <XAA28372>; Sun, 25 Jun 1995 23:51:04 -0500 Received: (huntercr@localhost) by lab11.cs.purdue.edu (8.6.10/PURDUE_CS-1.3) id <IAA04788>; Sun, 25 Jun 1995 08:04:31 -0500 From: huntercr@cs.purdue.edu (Charles Hunter) Message-Id: <199506251304.IAA04788@lab11.cs.purdue.edu> Subject: Re: 800K mac Disks To: deq102@crazy.fe.up.pt (Daniel Mota Leite), executor@nacm.com (Executor mailing list) Date: Sun, 25 Jun 1995 08:04:30 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.90.950625071827.15035A-100000@crazy.fe.up.pt> from "Daniel Mota Leite" at Jun 25, 95 07:27:08 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24alpha3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1359 Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk > > > David_A._Vandenbroucke@hud.gov wrote: > > > > anyone tried installing new software in this environment? I would guess that > > the master disks are 800K (right?), which means they have to be copied to high > > density disks before E/DOS can find them. Will the software get upset when I > > try to install it from a copy rather than the original diskettes? > > > Well... this is a old mail but i hope i can help > You could try to use the 2M (v3.0) or the FDRead utils... (DOS) > They can read/write 800K disks and i believe that they can read MAC > 800K disks... but i don't now, i haven't got any 800K mac disks to try it > out! > Good luck with this... and by happy 8) > > Daniel Jorge de Castro Carneiro da Mota Leite > DEQ102@crazy.fe.up.pt. > PORTUGAL > PORTO > +++++++ FREEDOM TO EAST-TIMOR++++++++++++++ > Unfortunately, this does not work. Mac disks use a format not able to be read or written to by DOS drives. Many older drives and systems like C64, Amiga, and Macs have this style of disk drive where the speed of the rotation varies with the location on the disk, x86 machines however do not. Central Point Software used to have a controller card that could do this, but I'm not sure it is in existance anymore. Very few people have a need for 800k disks anymore. -- Charles Hunter