Re: floppy

[Billy Hoya Jr <georgetown@SoftHome.net>]

> [I've had people tell me that you could hook up an Apple Platinum 5.25 to
> the floppy port on the back of early macs and access 5.25 disks with Apple
> File Exchange...is this true? I've never checked but it sounded sort of
> fishy at the time. Even if you could though, you wouldn't be getting a
> workable image, just loose files]


I tried this on someones SE once. All it did was grinde the drive and
ask me if I wanted to initialize the disk even though one wasn't there.
I think it has something to do with the way Finder checks the drives to
see if there's something in them.

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