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- From: addyer@pinc.com (A. Douglas Dyer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Amiga floppy drive questions
- Date: 21 Mar 1996 02:18:36 GMT
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- >Matt Anderson writes:
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- >That's correct. The older Mac floppies use a variable-speed drive to
- >cram 800K onto themselves, and cannot be read in any "standard" floppy
- >drive. What you *can* do is to obtain an older Mac external floppy
- >unit (they're pretty easy to find used), and get the hack which allows
- >you to connect it to your Ami from Aminet. Whether or not that will
- >work with ShapeShifter, I don't know.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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- An external 800K Mac floppy drive will work with shapeshifter
- configured as df3: using CrossMac.
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