Re: Mac Vintages and the ability to make ProDOS Disks...

[salfter@salfter.diespammersdie.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter)]

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In article <S7QAf.1562$eV4.427@tornado.socal.rr.com>,
Mark Frischknecht  <appleiiguy@gmail.com> wrote:
>I believe all non PPC & Non x86 macs can read GCR ie. Prodos disks

OldWorld PPC Macs can handle them, too.  Basically, if the floppy drive is
built-in (and not a USB add-on), it can read 800K floppies.  (The 800K
format wasn't unique to ProDOS, either.  Macs worked with 800K HFS-formatted
floppies for a number of years before the high-density floppy drives were
rolled out in the early '90s (or whenever).)

The last of the desktop Macs with a built-in floppy drive was the beige
G3.

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