Re: How to read old Apple floppies on Mac?

[russotto@wanda.pond.com (Matthew Russotto)]

In article <araskin-DC39CD.15393624052001@news1.rdc1.bc.home.com>,
Avery Raskin  <araskin@mac.com> 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.

Yeah, it's DOS, but it ain't MS-DOS

>2) It follows that any machine with an appropriate size drive and DOS 
>will be able to read the files...note that doesn't mean the machine in 
>question will be able to open the files, just copy the bytes to its hard 
>drive in a consistent fashion.

Nope, they can't, because the recording technique is NZRi/GCR instead
of MFM.  The controller can't physically read the bits.


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