Re: Latest mac that supported 800k ProDos disks

[oz390gta <oz390gta@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday, September 4, 2012 1:46:05 AM UTC+10, Hugh Hood wrote:
> Fellas,
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> I was sure some of the pros on here would have hit this softball out of the
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> park by now ... Must be celebrating Labor Day. <grin>
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> The last portable Mac to support the 800K 'SuperDrive' was the PowerBook G3
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> 'WallStreet' Model.
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> See here: 
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> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_G3#PowerBook_G3_Series_.28Wallstreet
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> _Series_II.2C_AKA_PDQ.29>
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> "Discontinued in May 1999, this would be the last Apple computer ever to use
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> the rainbow-colored Apple logo and the last Mac to support Apple's
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>  Superdrive. It's also the last Old World ROM model in the PowerBook
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> If you don't need it portable, pick up a PowerMac G3 (aka 'Beige G3') with
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> I use mine daily with a 1GHz G3 PowerLogix ZIF upgrade. It runs OS X 10.4.11
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> 'Tiger', boots into OS 9.2.2 (rarely it seems these days), and runs Bernie
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> in Classic mode like lightning.
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> (Hint, to run Tiger on this Old World Machine, use XPostFacto).
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> I still use it (when booted into OS 9.2.2) to image my 800kB ProDOS
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> floppies, BTW. 
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> As was mentioned, OS 9.2.2 was never fixed of a terrible bug in that if you
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> attempt to WRITE (at all) to a ProDOS formatted floppy, you go on
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> 'lockdown'. Earlier OS versions just gratuitously added a resource fork to
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> non-forked files. Ah, those Macheads at Apple must have had no love for
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> ProDOS.
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> Hugh Hood
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> > Anyone have any idea what was the latest portable mac to support 800k prodos
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> > disks? I want to get a machine that I can us to read and write prodos disks
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> > oz390gta

It seems that common wisdom on the net is that the Wallstreet will read and write 800k floppies but I have one and it certainly does not work with 800k floppies. Any more ideas for a portable with 800k support?