Re: reading 5.25 floppies with a mac SE (help)?

[nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates)]

In article <leducd.823274858@mistral.ERE.UMontreal.CA>,
Leduc Daniel <leducd@ERE.UMontreal.CA> wrote:
>I want to read my old Apple ][ floppies with a Mac SE. I have an Apple
>5.25 drive. I can plug it into my SE. But, unfortunatly, the MacOS
>(6.0.5) always asks for initialising the floppy. Then, it is impossible
>to make the SE working (because, it always asks for intialising). 

   The only 5.25" drives for macintoshes that sorta worked were ones
that Apple sold a while back, but they supported only the 360K IBM PC
5.25" formats. You may be able to physically connect a 5.25" to a Mac
with a floppy drive port, but there is no support for 5.25" disks in
them.

Nathan Mates


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