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- From: 71231.104@compuserve.com (Richard Slobod)
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- Subject: Re: mac 800k disks
- Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 21:07:31 GMT
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- Sandman <sandman@ald.net> wrote:
- >Rob Heath wrote:
- >>
- >> is there any program out there that will read 800k mac floppy disks?
- >>
- >> Rob Heath
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-
- > No. The fact is, that apple disk drives are PHYSICALLY different than ibm ones, and write to
- >parts of 720k disks that IBM never designed their drives to read. If you need to read the disk,
- >send it to a friend with a mac (if you can find someone) and have him put it on a 1.44 disk. Yet
- >another brilliant idea from apple--non compatibility! ;)
-
- Actually the problem isn't the drives, it's the controllers; a
- standard PC drive could read Mac 800K disks just fine if you hooked it
- up to a floppy controller that could drive it at variable speeds.
- Apparently there actually was an add-in card that provided this
- capability and could indeed read low-density Mac disks, but I don't
- think it's been available for years.
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