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Re: Read PC 720k Floopy on Apple IIe?
- Subject: Re: Read PC 720k Floopy on Apple IIe?
- From: "David Wilson" <mcs6502@gmail.com>
- Date: 4 Feb 2007 23:11:52 -0800
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On Feb 5, 11:37 am, "Bryan Parkoff" <nos...@nospam.com> wrote:
> If PC 720K floppy disk is MFM format, the answer is no. SuperDrive will
> not be able to read PC 720K floppy disk. It can only read Apple II 800K
> floppy disk using GCR format and PC 1.44MB floppy disk using MFM format. I
> have doubts about 720K.
The Superdrive & controller combo can read and write both 720KB and
1440KB MFM diskettes. I do recall David Empson (I think) saying that
it has some bugs (format option?) with 720KB diskettes..