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Re: Latest mac that supported 800k ProDos disks
Charlie wrote:
> On 9/3/2012 3:53 PM, D Finnigan wrote:
>>
>> As far as I know, only Apple computers had variable-speed 3.5" floppy
>> drives. These were manufactured by Sony.
>>
>> The Apple drives used GCR at their lowest level, whereas the IBM drives
>> used
>> MFM.
>>
> I believe the 3.5" Apple drive can read/write either GCR or MFM if the
> controller is designed for both.
That would be the SuperDrive, introduced in 1989 with the Mac SE/30.