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- At 09:07 PM 3/30/96 GMT, Richard Slobod wrote:
- [>Sandman <sandman@ald.net> wrote:
- [>>Rob Heath wrote:
- [>>>
- [>>> is there any program out there that will read 800k mac floppy disks?
- [>>>
- [>>> Rob Heath
- [>
- [>
- [>> 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.
- [>
- [>
- [>
- Central Point made and marketed a toy called the Option Board. I don't know
- if they still make it or not. It was a copy board. There was, indeed, a
- special version that was supposed to be able to read Mac Diskettes; but,
- the drive, itself, had to be compatible. I still have mine, though I
- haven't used it in years. I never found a drive that would work with the
- Apple (//e, //c, and Mac) AND my PC compatible.
-
- John
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