Re: 800K Drive on an iMac--Yes...

[cwatson@cam.org (Sean McBride)]

In article <20001119150842.22479.00000607@ng-ff1.aol.com>,
obsbedia2@aol.com (Obsbedia2) wrote:

>So, this seems to be a software problem, not hardware.  As long as Mac OS
>8.1-8.5 is run on the iMac, it should be possible to rewire an external 800K
>drive to work with the iMac.
>Jay Edwards
>
>> << OS 8.6 stopped support of those disks, so, yes
>> and no. >>
>> 
>> So, it will work with OS 8.5?
>YES

Mac OS up to and including 9.0.4 can read/fromat/etc. 800k floppies as
HFS/ProDOS/MSDOS(720k).  You are probably thinking of 400k floppies, in
the MFS format: support for them was dropped in 8.x I believe.

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