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Re: Using MAC low-density disks.



There was a board from MicroSolutions (The Backpack People) called Matchpoint
II. You attached an Apple 800k drive to this guy and it read Mac 400k/800k
disks...

- Al Hartman -
Computer Expressions


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Subj:	Re: Using MAC low-density disks. 
Date:	95-05-17 05:36:20 EDT
From:	ats@nimue.wustl.edu
To:	ctm@ardi.com
CC:	g.sightler@genie.geis.com, executor@nacm.com

From: ats@nimue.wustl.edu (Alan Shutko)
Sender: owner-executor@nacm.com
To: ctm@ardi.com (Clifford T. Matthews)
CC: g.sightler@genie.geis.com, executor@nacm.com
>>>>> "Cliff" == Clifford T Matthews <ctm@ardi.com> writes:

>>>>> "Jesse" == g sightler <g.sightler@genie.geis.com> writes:
 
Jesse> In fact, the early MAC emulators for the Amiga did this rather
Jesse> well (of course, they had to shut off multitasking to do it :).

Actually, it was the later mac emulators which did it... it took a
while for it to happen.

Cliff> Even then I'm not sure that the PC has the same sort of
Cliff> control over the floppy disk that the Amigas did. 

I'm not sure either... as far as I know, it is impossible for the vast
majority of PC drives to read Amiga disks.  (And as an owner of both,
I have a vested interest in that!  If I'm wrong, PLEASE correct me!)
If I understand correctly, it's hinges on some capability that most
manufacturers didn't include to reduce prices.