Re: Latest mac that supported 800k ProDos disks

[gids.rs@sasktel.net]

On Sunday, September 2, 2012 4:10:25 PM UTC-6, oz390gta wrote:
> Anyone have any idea what was the latest portable mac to support 800k prodos disks? I want to get a machine that I can us to read and write prodos disks and also act as a fileserver.
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> oz390gta

No G4's have floppy drives, but you can get a usb floppy drive, and I use Bernie2theRescue emulator on a beige G3. Reading 800kb Prodos disks from the Finder gives quite a few errors but reading and writing 800kb Prodos disks from Bernie under both Prodos and GSOS are virtually error free.

Any of the Power Mac series (these have 4 digits) computers will do just fine as well but can only run Mac OS 9.  I have A G3 desktop upgraded to 1 GHz and run MacOSX 10.2.9 but I find it a quite slow.  I have a second beige G3 tower with MacOS 9.1 which I use as my main emulator computer.  I do not recommend upgrading to MacOS 9.2.2 as I destroyed 2 different hard drives on my G3's. I transferred some of the updated extensions and control panels that I needed from MacOS 9.2.2 to my MacOS 9.1 computer and all seems to work so far.  Have not had a crash in over 3 years.

I did a lot of trouble shooting back them and got so sick of it to a point where I almost gave up on computers all together.  Now that I have a stable computer and OS, I won't change a thing.

Rob