Re: First Impressions of "iMAC"

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

Charles Stephens (devnull@dobbs.eng.sun.com) wrote:
: >>>>> "MM" == Mike Morton <ak_dragon@hotmail.com> writes:

:  MM> It looked cool, but the mouse was too small and there is no way
:  MM> to get data off of it.  They should have just charged $1349 for
:  MM> it and thrown in a SuperDrive.  BTW, I have heard that the
:  MM> SuperDrive cannot read or write 800k or 400k disk, is this true?

: There are known problems with newer SuperDrives found in PowerMacs in
: which 800k data written by the newer (read: cheaper) drives not being
: able to be read by older 800k devices.

That's funny; that is just the opposite of what I found with the Quadra
640AV's at work.  Disks formatted on the Quadras would work fine with my
800k drives both at home and at work; but disks formatted with my 800k
equipment frequently would not work on the Quadra.  Furthermore, the
Quadras generally hated all manner of 800k disk as a matter of course, and
would generally require about ten minutes to mount an 800k ProDOS disk
(thank heaven for the HFS FST for GS/OS!).

Hmmm...Now that the lab has been upraded to G3's, I should test 'em out
and see if their ProDOS handling and 800k handling is any better...

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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