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- From: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: Does the Mac 512 have 800K drives?
- Message-ID: <D2150035.deu6g0@outpost.SF-Bay.org>
- Date: 12 Sep 92 18:37:04 GMT
- Reply-To: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
- Organization: Peirce Software
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- In article <18qs3nINNerc@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> (comp.sys.mac.hardware), gukgn@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Kim Guan Ng) writes:
- > What I want to know basically, is, if I wanted to post someone a floppy
- > with stuff on it and he had a Mac 512, can I assume he has an 800K
- > drive?
-
- There are two types of 512K Macintoshes. The original (also know as
- a Fat Mac!) has a 400K floppy. Later, when the Plus was introduced,
- Apple provided an ungraded 512K called the 512KE (or enhanced I guess).
- This included an 800K floppy drive.
-
- So find out if your friend has a 512KE.
-
- > If not, how do I create "folders" on 400K floppies? I have tried, but I
- > am running System 7, and the Finder tells me that I cannot create
- > folders on 400K floppies (I know that under the MFS system that folders
- > are merely cosmetic devices).
-
- System 7 only deals with MFS floppies in a compatability mode. It
- doesn't support thing like creating folders and such. Sorry.
-
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