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Re: 800k disks possible at all?
In article <31842e67.22965163@news.sprynet.com>,
ronps@sprynet.com (ronald) wrote:
>Hi everyone .. i downloaded the demo of Executor and love it,
>i know it does state there is no direct support for 800k mac disks but
>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 ability to read and possibly write (thats not as important i
>suppose) 800k disks is key to me and the disks i have here.
>
>any comments, suggestions, etc are greatly appreciated..
>
>Executor is an amazing piece of software.
>
>Ronald
>
Hello...
I've read the other replies, and variable speed might work, but who
knows. The reason Executor can't read 800K's is because when PC's only could
cram 720K on a disk, they decided to physically write more tracks on the
inside of the disk. So, pretty much nothing but another Mac can read it, I
think.
Ryan Myers ( rmyers@teleport.com )
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