Re: MacDTS Sample code, MacDTS Stacks2 and Developer CD

[D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com>]

Steve Nickolas wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Jul 2012, Tom Gerbe wrote:
> 
>>
>> I was cleaning out some old computer stuff and came across several disks
>> that
>> must have been part of the mountain of Apple Developer stuff they used to
>>
>> mail out in the late 80s.  I was about to toss them, but want to see if
>> they
>> are of any interest to the Apple community.
>>
>> They are white disks with generic labels entitled:
>>
>> First Disk:
>>
>> MacDTS Stacks 2 - June 1989
>> Technical Notes Stack 3.1
>> Q&A Stack 3.1
>> Apple computer inc. 1988,1989
>> Disk 2 of 2 (Disk 1 has yet to be found)
>>
>> Second Disk:
>>
>> MacDTS Sample Code
>> April / June 1989
>> Apple Computer Inc. 1988,1989
>>
>>
>>
>> I don't have a mac with a 3.5 drive.  Can Mac disks be read by a ][gs? I
>> am
>> going to toss the CD in my mac mini and see if it can be read.
>>
>> If there's any interest I will attempt to extract them.  If that's not 
>> possible, I can always drop them in the mail to someone with appropriate 
>> hardware.
>>
>> -Tom (aka boot zero)
>>
>>
> 
> I think you might need to install a filesystem driver (HFS FST) but to 
> some extent they can.  (hope they're 800K though...  but if they're 1.44 
> MB you can just use a PC)
> 

The SuperDrive debuted in 1989 with the Mac SE/30.

It is highly unlikely that these disks from 1989 are high-density, since
most of the entire Mac population at the time had only DS 800K disks.


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