Re: MFM or GCR ??

[Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net>]

In article <4ZqcnRoQZ5qUHSujXTWcqQ@speakeasy.net>,
 russotto@grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew Russotto) wrote:

> 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.

I am a "MacPerson", and can tell you that the statement above is only 
*KIND OF* correct.

SOME Macs have (if the user hasn't stripped it out as useless cruft) a 
control panel/extension installed that will let them mount a ProDOS 
formatted disk, yes. However, they have *NO* other ProDOS functionality 
unless they're running an emulator that is itself actually running 
ProDOS, or have an Apple II card installed, and have ProDOS running on 
that.

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