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Re: How to read old Apple floppies on Mac?

Subject: Re: How to read old Apple floppies on Mac?
From: "Wayne C. Morris" <nospam@this.is.invalid>
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 04:32:05 GMT
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In article <araskin-DC39CD.15393624052001@news1.rdc1.bc.home.com>,
 Avery Raskin <araskin@mac.com> wrote:

> 1) IIRC, pre-Mac Apples used DOS as their OS, ergo the floppies you have 
> are DOS.

No, they used Apple DOS.  Later, they used Apple ProDOS.  Neither of 
those bore any resemblance to PC-DOS and MS-DOS ... nor to any of the 
countless other "Disk Operating Systems" which bore the DOS acronym.

References:
- How to read old Apple floppies on Mac?
  - From: Ted Shoemaker <nospam@newsranger.com>
- Re: How to read old Apple floppies on Mac?
  - From: Avery Raskin <araskin@mac.com>

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