Re: AEHD drive

[shack@southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <387D6B9E.691F0860@dcnet2000.com>,
Phoenyx  <quazar@dcnet2000.com> wrote:
>The sad truth is, at that point vendors simply did not
>care enough about new hardware for the II series. As
>for the Mac, Apple had it's own methods and had very
>little interest in maintaining compatibility with any
>thing related to the MS Pc. For those who remember,
>Apple was very anti MS in that era. I believe they
>thought it would ruin their Mac's 'appliance' image
>if they were to keep compatibility with the PC.

Yeah, that must be why they went to MFM on floppies when GCR can handle 1.6
mb, as AE supported. As everyone knows, MFM can only do 720K and 1.4 mb on 
DD and HD disks respectively while GCR does 800K and 1.6 mb.
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