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Re: Pascal 400kb Disk



Bill Garber wrote:


I believe what everyone is missing here is this. These are 400K disks.
They are probably only written on one side. The Apple 3.5 drives
will only do double sided disks. 800k, am I wrong here? You need the
older Mac drive, the 400K single sided drive that was used on the
Mac 512's. Is this correct? I'm not altogether certain of what I'm saying
but if I'm right then it may be impossible to copy those disks without
one of these drives, which are sometimes on eBay, although I've only
seen 2 in like 8 months. Maybe someone like AllTech has one lying
around. Just a thought.



Pascal isn't my area so I can't comment on that. However I once thought
if I used a Mac M0130 400k drive on a UDC card equipped IIe I'd have
disks vitually nobody could read. Boy was I wrong! I inserted one of
these 400k ProDOS disks into my IIgs 3.5"drive and it could read and
write to it, no problem. Tried it on a SuperDrive equiped IIe and it
too could read and write to the 400k disks. Tried it on a Mac beige
G3 running MacOS 9 and it could read it. Seemed like just about every
drive I had would read those 400k floppies

Wayne