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Re: MFM or GCR ??
- Subject: Re: MFM or GCR ??
- From: russotto@grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew Russotto)
- Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 10:15:21 -0500
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: DiS(L)organized
- References: <XnVsa.41454$3h5.659257@news2.east.cox.net> <b950lt$6ddi$3@hades.rz.uni-saarland.de>
- Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.sys.apple2:30186
In article <b950lt$6ddi$3@hades.rz.uni-saarland.de>,
Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@coli.uni-sb.de> wrote:
>MFM isn't chosen so the PC can't. As for the Mac I don't know if it ever
>had 5.25 inch drives. Any Mac that can read 800KB Mac disks should also
>be able to read 800KB Apple II 3.5 inch disks as far as I know. At least
>the disk is physically readable, you probably need some sort of ProDOS
>file system driver to make sense of it. I'm not a MacPerson though.
Macs of certain vintages (those running System 7.x, I believe) have
Prodos built in.
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