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Re: 800k disks possible at all?




   > is there anyway through additional hardware that i can read these
   > disks? my former Mac system was a Plus (long time ago) and for some
   > reason i oddly want to get at all my old font diskettes.. 

   The Mac 800k format uses variable speed drives, so you need a variable
   speed drive, with suitable software, to be able to read these disks on
   non-Mac machines. Central Point used to sell their Copy II Option Board
   for the PC which did this on a standard PC drive, but I believe it was
   withdrawn because it also allowed copy-protected software to be copied.

   Digby James

Or the ability to read the disk at different data rates, which, I
believe the Central Point board did [I seem to also remember that the
Amiga or Atari ST did something simular with the data rates].


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