Re: help: 800k USB floppy drive?

[waynes@intergate.ca (Wayne Stewart)]

Rich J. wrote 

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> help: 800k USB floppy drive?
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> is there a such thing?  seems you can't get a floppy drive for a mac
> nowadays that reads 800K ProDOS disks?  how the heck does one do file
> transfers on a modern mac???

Unfotunately there isn't and likely won't be an 800k USB drive. Reason
is
it takes a variable speed drive to read 800k floppies. PCs don't use
variable
speed drives and the last Mac that used them was last made about 13
years ago.
Apple II users are almost the whole market for such a drive.

To get data to a IIgs I'd suggest Appletalk. If the Mac doesn't have
serial
ports then a compact Mac with an Ethernet card can usually be had for
pennies.
If you use Localtalk bridge you can see through the compact Mac and
mount your
iMac or Cubes hard drive on your IIgs desktop. I used an SE30 for that
for quite a while.

	Wayne