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Re: mac 800k disks



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.



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