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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!apple!goofy!mumbo.apple.com!gallant.apple.com!nuntius
  2. From: stevec@apple.com (Steve Christensen)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
  4. Subject: Re: Mac floppy drive
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec23.192350.5129@gallant.apple.com>
  6. Date: 23 Dec 92 19:23:50 GMT
  7. References: <1992Dec11.041213.14697@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
  8. Sender: news@gallant.apple.com
  9. Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
  10. Lines: 11
  11.  
  12. Brian Altman, baltman@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu writes:
  13. >Can the mac high density drive read a 240kb floppy from a
  14. >Brother notebook organizer for the purpose of transfering
  15. >text file?
  16.  
  17. I don't think that the floppy drive has any limitations that
  18. would prevent it, but the software that runs the whole floppy
  19. disk show is only designed to work with 720K and 1.44M disks
  20. (that's IBM's 1M and 2M disk format)...
  21.  
  22. steve
  23.