Re: Okay, flopticals can't read 800k. 800K scsi drives?

[cwilson@frankenstein.engr.sgi.com (Chan Wilson)]

In article <behrenss.750472891@hphalle6>, behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE writes:
> cwilson@frankenstein.engr.sgi.com (Chan Wilson) writes:
> 
> 800k what, that is the question? I can write 800k to an MFM floppy,
> and a floptical or other device would read that. If you mean GCR ...
> I never heard of a GCR-capable SCSI device. It would be ridiculously
> expensive, I guess, if there were such a thing.
> 
> Could you perhaps explain why you think you need something like that
> at all?

Gladly.  It is now possible to emulate Mac, Apple II, and IBM PC computers
on a (high-endish, $5K) workstation.  I have scads of Mac and A2 3.5" disks, 
but 99.9% are low-density, ie, 800k.  I have no easy way of reading these disks
directly on the workstation.  (I know several difficult ways of doing so.)

--Chan
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