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Re: Can IIgs write Mac 800K disks?

Subject: Re: Can IIgs write Mac 800K disks?
From: dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 23:44:57 +1300
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
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Michael Black <et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote:

> Jeff Thomas (a2forever@usa.net) writes:
> > Another possibility is that Mac Plus has built-in 400Kb 3.5" disk drive
> > which can only read/write to single sides.
> > 
> No, the Mac Plus has a double sided drive.
> 
> The original Mac, the Mac 512K, and maybe the Mac 512KE, had
> single sided drives.

The 512KE was double sided.

> The Mac Plus can only take an 800K drive.
> The Mac II, the Mac SE, and maybe one more may have an 800K and
> might have a high density drive, depending on some variables.

Just those two, and the "variable" is whether the FDHD upgrade was
applied: replacing the IWM controller with a SWIM, and replacing the
800K drive mechanism with a SuperDrive.

The next model released after the SE and II was the IIx, and it had a
SuperDrive.

-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz

References:
- Can IIgs write Mac 800K disks?
  - From: Blake Patterson <bwpatter@bellatlantic.net>
- Re: Can IIgs write Mac 800K disks?
  - From: Jeff Thomas <a2forever@usa.net>
- Re: Can IIgs write Mac 800K disks?
  - From: et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Michael Black)

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