Re: New Apple GS Computer

[Greg Buchner <nobody@wavetech.net>]

In article <puS46.191368$4K4.31004832@typhoon.southeast.rr.com>, "**** 
****" <***@***.com> wrote:

> That isn't a problem. I have seven 68k macs, nine if I piece together a 
> few more. I've heard that they tend to completely hose prodos disks
> though, and I'm not sure how to proceed.

Actually, it's the PowerPC Macs that have the problem creating ProDOS
800K disks.  I made some disks recently for someone and being that my
GS was unassembled, I used a Quadra 650 to do it and it seems to have
worked just fine.

The drives on the Mac seem to work best if they're the auto-inject kind,
i.e., they suck the disk out of your fingers.  If they're the manual
inject, they have an opening that you can fit a finger into so you can
push the floppy all the way in to seat it.  Sometimes these drives have
had problems with ProDOS disks.  They showed up on the later Quadra's
and all the floppy equipped PowerPC's.

Greg B.
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