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- 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
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- >
- > > 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
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