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Re: prodos disks mac <-> GS ?!
- Subject: Re: prodos disks mac <-> GS ?!
- From: Benjamin O Zotto <zotto@fas.harvard.edu>
- Date: 23 Feb 2001 20:10:22 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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> expensive drives made by Sony that handled both the Apple GCR and
> Wintel MFM quite well. But people kept on complaining about the
> replacement costs of these drives so Apple went to drives that were
> designed to be MFM and made them work with GCR on the PowerMacs.
> The original drives would vary their speed depending on what part of
> the floppy was being accessed so they could fit more on them. This
> was a hardware function of the drive. With the later ones, this was
> something that was emulated in software and didn't really function
> as well.
Thanks-- that's an interesting history. (Now I know)
Ben