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- From: 71231.104@compuserve.com (Richard Slobod)
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- Subject: Re: 800k disks possible at all?
- Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 21:07:55 GMT
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- rmyers@teleport.com (Ryan Myers) wrote:
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- > I've read the other replies, and variable speed might work, but who
- >knows. The reason Executor can't read 800K's is because when PC's only could
- >cram 720K on a disk, they decided to physically write more tracks on the
- >inside of the disk. So, pretty much nothing but another Mac can read it, I
- >think.
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- Actually, a PC with a standard drive and controller _can_ cram 800K on
- a "720K" disk; there's an old shareware program called MAXI Form which
- will do this.
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- As for non-Macs that can read Mac 800K disks, the ones I know of are
- Apple II's with 3.5" drives, Amigas, and PC's with an old Central
- Point Copy II PC Option Board or some other hardware solution.
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