Re: GS/OS 6 (System 6) Where to get it -- update

[greg@apple2.com]

In article <37102A8C.F82BD991@worldnet.att.net>,
MarshaJ@AOL.com wrote:
>greg@apple2.com wrote:

>> This is bad, especially due to the fact that 800 KB drives with which to
>> turn the images into disks are becoming more and more difficult to
>> obtain.  (SuperDisk drives can't read 800 KB disks, and I haven't seen any
>> other 3.5" drives available for me to use on my new G3's USB.)

> The Mac8100 I have seems to read and write 800K disks fine. The trick is
> the disks have to be 720K/800K disks, they cannot be 1.4M (with the second
> square opening).

I know about that.  I've used 5.25" write protect tabs to cover up the HD
hole on disks that were formatted 800 KB on older drives.

You missed the point that _SuperDisk_ drives can't read 800 KB disks AT
ALL.  They don't support them.  I have yet to discover if there are any
USB 3.5" disk drives that aren't SuperDisk drives.  The drive on a Mac
8100 is not a SuperDisk drive.

Meanwhile, 400 KB ProDOS disks lost access under Mac OS at the same time
as MFS disks, meaning you can't use an original Copy II Plus 3.5" disk
with Bernie unless you roll back to an earlier version of the Mac OS. 
(No, 400 KB 3.5" disks (single sided) aren't compatible with SuperDisk
drives either.)  I don't even know if the current version of Bernie will
even work under a sufficiently old Mac OS.

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