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- From: JimC@cup.portal.com (Jim GEOS Collette)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: Mac <--> cbm
- Message-ID: <64084@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 17:01:18 PDT
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <cdminter.713759082@icaen.uiowa.edu>
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- Nope, it's a hardware limitation - the 1581 uses industry-standard single
- speed MFM drives (a la PC, Amiga, etc.) but the Mac uses variable speed GCR
- drives which can't be read by anything else.
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- Jim :)
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