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- id TAA10987; Mon, 26 Jun 1995 19:13:35 +0300
- Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 19:13:35 +0300 (EETDST)
- From: Tero Vilhu <Tero.Vilhu@lut.fi>
- To: Charles Hunter <huntercr@cs.purdue.edu>
- cc: Daniel Mota Leite <deq102@crazy.fe.up.pt>,
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- Subject: Re: 800K mac Disks
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- On Sun, 25 Jun 1995, Charles Hunter wrote:
-
- > 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
-
- Don't know about C64 but Amiga does NOT have drive with varying speed..
- Amiga's hardware allows better control of the drive and the varying speed
- is made by turning disk motor on and off quickly. This allows reading of
- Macs 800k disks. Some older Mac emulators used it but it was discarded
- because multitasking had to be forbidden...
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-