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

[Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net>]

greg@apple2.com wrote:


:>> 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.

It is a bit confusing that Apple's HD floppy drives are called superdrives
and the drives formerly called LS120s are called superdisks now. I'd say
fat chance on any third party 400K/800K support since DD disks are pretty 
much a thing of the past. Floppies are likely to vanish altogether before
much longer, replaced by Zips.
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