Re: Apple][gs and Quadra 660AV HFS conflict

[shack@crash.cts.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <1994Mar24.181850.23537@seas.smu.edu>,
Andrew R. Volk <volk@seas.smu.edu> wrote:
>In article <1994Mar23.201856.1@acad2.alaska.edu> astdm@acad2.alaska.edu (Malone) writes:
>>> The PowerPC macs are shipping with a new version of the SWIM and not the
>>> rumored/promised MFM-only controller. I even saw an ad that mentioned
>>> that they could read ProDOS disks :).

>>	One built-in Apple SuperDrive 1.4MB floppy disk drive that uses
>>	high-density floppy disks and reads, writes, and formats Macintosh,
>>	Windows, MS-DOS, OS/2, and ProDOS disks
>
>They can all do this already! Just download the Apple //e Card software from
>ftp.apple.com, and install only the ProDOS File System extension. Transparent
>reading of ProDOS disks, doesn't require the //e card. (old Bridging The
>Gap knowledge, as I recall :)

But the point is that if the new machines had some MFM-only disk controller,
this would no longer be possible. It wouldn't be possible to read any 800K
disks if this had happened.
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