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- From: 90taobri@BLUFFS.SCAR.UTORONTO.CA (Brian Tao)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: a question of storage
- Message-ID: <9301061528.AA12474@bluffs.scar.utoronto.ca>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 15:28:47 GMT
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- The following revelation escaped Roy Barrett's lips:
- >
- > Brian Tao (90taobri@CHASM.SCAR.UTORONTO.CA) wrote:
- > [...]
- > : 4. Will read MS-DOS 720K and MS-DOS/ProDOS/Mac 1.44-meg disks.
- >
- > Ahem, from what I saw from Todd P. Whitesel's (?) post said that it will
- > _NOT_ read Mac/ProDOS disks. I think he also said it wouldn't read MS-DOS
- > disks.
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- You cannot read _800K_ disks in the floptical drive because it uses MFM
- encoding. I suppose theoretically you could make 720K Mac and ProDOS
- disks, but the FST or floptical driver might not let you do that. HD
- floppies shouldn't be a problem.
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