Re: Read //gs disks on Intel?

[Professor Dredd <profdredd@yahoo.com>]

Howdy Wayne!

In article <3A83410D.884A0B0@intergate.bc.ca>,
  Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca> wrote:
> It's not actually the newer Macs that can't handle 800k, it's the USB
> floppy drives. The main problem is that t's a single speed drive like
> PC floppy drives. As you're likely aware the Apple II and earlier
> Macs used a variable speed drive to cram 800k instead of 720k
> on a floppy.  When Apple went to high density drives they decided
> on going with a more compatibleformatting so we have 1440k disks
> instead of 1600k

Okay, so what you're REALLY saying is:
No provision is made for changing the frequency of the oscillator which
clocks the data bits out to the write circuit.
If that's what you mean, I think I understand  ;)

> With currant Macs I think the problem is't as much the lack of an 800k
> drive but lack of any way to easily transfer information unless you're
> one of the few with an Apple II ethernet card.
> My solution is an SE30 with an ethernet card. It'll write 800k or
1.4mb
> disks but I tend to use it more as sort of an Appletalk "hub". It
hooks up
> to a newer Mac via ethernet and a IIgs and IIe with workstation card
> via localtalk. Using Localtak Bridge on the SE30 and with file sharing
> on on both the G3 and SE30, the IIgs will see both machines hard
drives.

Hey I've got a couple of those IIgs Workstation cards, but no software
or documentation. Is there anywhere the software can be downloaded? Is
there an detailed FAQ about the Workstation card somewhere?
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