Re: Latest mac that supported 800k ProDos disks

[gids.rs@sasktel.net]

On Sunday, September 2, 2012 10:51:53 PM UTC-6, Kevin wrote:
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> > > Anyone have any idea what was the latest portable mac to support 800k prodos disks? I want to get a machine that I can us to read and write prodos disks and also act as a fileserver.
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> > No G4's have floppy drives, but you can get a usb floppy drive, and I use Bernie2theRescue emulator on a beige G3. Reading 800kb Prodos disks from the Finder gives quite a few errors but reading and writing 800kb Prodos disks from Bernie under both Prodos and GSOS are virtually error free.
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> > Any of the Power Mac series (these have 4 digits) computers will do just fine as well but can only run Mac OS 9.  I have A G3 desktop upgraded to 1 GHz and run MacOSX 10.2.9 but I find it a quite slow.  I have a second beige G3 tower with MacOS 9.1 which I use as my main emulator computer.  I do not recommend upgrading to MacOS 9.2.2 as I destroyed 2 different hard drives on my G3's. I transferred some of the updated extensions and control panels that I needed from MacOS 9.2.2 to my MacOS 9.1 computer and all seems to work so far.  Have not had a crash in over 3 years.
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> > I did a lot of trouble shooting back them and got so sick of it to a point where I almost gave up on computers all together.  Now that I have a stable computer and OS, I won't change a thing.
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> interesting, I have 9.22 on my powermac9600 with zero problems, and its not even supported by 9.22
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> case stands though, any mac that came from the factory with a floppy disk and probably a pre OSx (not sure how OSX handles them) system can handle the disks, but most of them are pretty durn slow and most of them use scsi disks which are kind of hard to find, or expensive as crap


At the time I was trying every device possible to get every extension and control panel working.  I had tv/video cards installed, PCI usb cards, laser printers, networking, dvd writer, etc.  I had my G3 maxed out, and I also had my suspicions that only one extension caused the hard drive to crash both times, but I could not isolate the conflict.  It could very well be that you will not run into any problems with 9.22 but after reverting back to OS 9.1, I saw no advantages of updating and did not want to risk another conflict.

Rob