Re: How to read old Apple floppies on Mac?

[Greg Weston <gwestonREMOVE@CAPShome.com>]

In article <jPhP6.75772$ff.584151@news-server.bigpond.net.au>, ralmin
<xbiber@bigpond.net.au> wrote:

> > Well, stretching the envelope here a little, since we're talking about a
> > loooooooong time ago, but...
> >
> > 1) IIRC, pre-Mac Apples used DOS as their OS, ergo the floppies you have
> > are DOS.
> 
> All computers use a DOS. Apple II, MacOS, Windows, Linux, All use a DOS.

Nope. You've confused DOS with file system. They're not the same thing.
File systems are how things are organized on disks. DOSs are basically
exception handlers that substituted for real operating systems on early
desktop machines and generally reacted by pulling something off a
storage device into memory and jumping to the beginning.

G