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Re: Cheapest Way To Get a 3.5" Drive Working on an Apple IIe?

Subject: Re: Cheapest Way To Get a 3.5" Drive Working on an Apple IIe?
From: Daniel Kruszyna <dan@krue.net>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 12:06:32 +0000 (UTC)
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aiiadict@gmail.com wrote:
> Those slots are valuable.  How about getting a CFFA which ?will emulate a 3.5 floppy with an 800k DSK image?

It's probably not important for the majority of software, but the
CFFA3000 does not emulate a 3.5" drive. It instead emulates a 800k hard
drive partition, which is not the same, but (usually) sufficient.

-- Daniel

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- Cheapest Way To Get a 3.5" Drive Working on an Apple IIe?
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