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- From: EricB@pobox.com (ericb@psu.edu (Eric Bennett))
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- Subject: Re: Mac 2 PC
- Date: 20 Mar 1996 17:37:46 GMT
- Organization: Penn State University, Center for Academic Computing
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- In article <4iouuu$lhq@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU>
- firmin@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au (Lyndon Bernard Firmin ) writes:
-
- > I am in search of a piece of software that can
- > read 800k Mac disk for my PC.. If any one has any information on
- > the software that I need could you please email me..
- > firmin@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au
- > Thank you..
- > Lyndon.
-
- I believe that this is impossible due to hardware limitations on PC
- floppy drives. You can read Mac 1.44 mb disks on a PC drive, but the
- Mac uses a goofy drive mechanism and goofy disk format to squeeze 800k
- onto a low density disk (whereas PC low density disks are only 720k);
- PC drives cannot read this format. The software you want cannot be
- written.
-
- -Eric Bennett (ericb@pobox.com)
-
- Drawing on my fine command of the language, I said nothing.
- -Robert Benchley
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