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Re: Macs and 800K disks

In article Jawaid Bazyar <bazyar@hypermall.com> writes...
>
>Indeed, my Performa 6115CD sometimes just totally forgets how to deal
>with 800K floppies. Can't read them, can't write them, etc. I suspect a
>bug in the driver. Tony Diaz mentioned that you can hook an actual 800K
>floppy drive up to a newer Mac and it works fine, and more reliably with
>800K floppies. I've never done that, but Tony's usually right :)

    Too bad Apple removed the Diskport (for supporting external floppy
drives) from all current Macintosh systems. Actually I think beginning
sometime in 1993, the Diskport was removed and Apple replaced the Sony
mechanism with an inexpensive IBM-brand floppy mechanism.

    These days dealing with 800K is a non-issue for me, since I can now
have my IIgs access 1.44MB HFS diskettes via my SuperDrive. :-) (and
especially nice being able to share disks between IBM PC's, which are
the majority of systems out there).

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca