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- From: alevine@ucsd.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Subject: Re: Direct serial connections between NeXTs and Macs
- Date: 11 Dec 1992 20:06:20 GMT
- Organization: University of California, San Diego
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- References: <dillon.0smm@overload.Berkeley.CA.US>
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- In article <dillon.0smm@overload.Berkeley.CA.US>
- dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes:
- > In article <1992Dec9.195748.12166@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
- matthews@ecfa.jsc.nasa.gov (Michael C. Matthews) writes:
- > >In article <1g41imINNfu0@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>
- hubt@css.itd.umich.edu (Hubert Chen) writes:
- > >>In article <1g3a9qINNgke@keats.rick.cs.ubc.ca> x4y092@rick.cs.ubc.ca
- (Steven Kenneth Besler) writes:
- > >>>
- > >>>Wrong. Not all DOS disks are 1.44 Meg. Low density (720k) DOS disks
- can
- > >>>...
- > >
- > >The Super Wozniak Integrated Machine (SWIM) chip is used in newer
- > >Macs, with the SuperDrive (1.44 meg) floppy drive. The Wozniak
- > >Integrated Machine (WIM) chip was used previously, on the 800-K
- > >..
- > >
- > >Of course, any of what I just wrote may be bunk, since it's all off
- > >the top of my head, and comes from my possibly shaky recollection of
- > >reading the Spectre-GCR manual a couple of years ago and a few old
- > >MacWEEK articles about the SuperDrive...
- >
- > Boy, what a waste of money!... the Amiga got 880K out of 720K
- floppies
- > on standard fixed-speed drives simply by reading and writing whole
- > tracks at a time. Encoding is standard MFM. No sector gap means
- more
- > sectors per track.
- >
- > :-)
- >
- > -Matt
- >
- >
- > >--
- > >Mike Matthews, ex-Tether Dude +------------->
- matthews@ial7.jsc.nasa.gov
- > >"Had the Shuttle on a String" \_ Now accepting NeXTMail via
- KlugeNet(TM)!
- > >Lockheed-ESC |
- > >Houston, TX | *** WILL HACK FOR FOOD ***
- >
- > --
- >
- > Matthew Dillon dillon@Overload.Berkeley.CA.US
- > 1005 Apollo Way uunet.uu.net!overload!dillon
- > Incline Village, NV. 89451 ham: KC6LVW (no mail drop)
- > USA Sandel-Avery Engineering (702)831-8000
-
- On this note, I have an old Mac 800 K drive sitting around, left over from
- when I upgraded my SE (talke about a waste of money...). Any way I can
- rig a SCSI bus for it so I can read all those old 800K disks on my NeXT?
- No? Didn't think so...
- --
- Alexander Levine Department of Philosophy
- alevine@ucsd.edu 0302, UCSD
- La Jolla, CA 92093
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