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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Subject: Re: HELP: MAC diskettes on the PC !
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 16:38:57 GMT
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- In article <gfI8g3O00WB6I4SFF6@andrew.cmu.edu> Sparrow+@CMU.EDU (Kin Chan) writes:
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- >I managed to get a copy of mac-ette.zip in 134.95.80.1, by using Archie
- >Archive Search. It WORKS but only on 1.44 Mb disks. The author claims
- >that 800K disks (and anything lower) are almost impossible to read
- >without extra hardware.
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- I think this is due to the Mac disks being constant linear velocity. More
- sectors will fit on the outer tracks and less on the inner tracks. This
- requires a variable angular velocity spindle.
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