Re: Latest mac that supported 800k ProDos disks

[Hugh Hood <hughhood@earthlink.net>]

Fellas,

I was sure some of the pros on here would have hit this softball out of the
park by now ... Must be celebrating Labor Day. <grin>

The last portable Mac to support the 800K 'SuperDrive' was the PowerBook G3
'WallStreet' Model.

See here: 

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_G3#PowerBook_G3_Series_.28Wallstreet
_Series_II.2C_AKA_PDQ.29>


"Discontinued in May 1999, this would be the last Apple computer ever to use
the rainbow-colored Apple logo and the last Mac to support Apple's
 Superdrive. It's also the last Old World ROM model in the PowerBook
 series."



If you don't need it portable, pick up a PowerMac G3 (aka 'Beige G3') with
the SuperDrive built in.

I use mine daily with a 1GHz G3 PowerLogix ZIF upgrade. It runs OS X 10.4.11
'Tiger', boots into OS 9.2.2 (rarely it seems these days), and runs Bernie
in Classic mode like lightning.

(Hint, to run Tiger on this Old World Machine, use XPostFacto).

I still use it (when booted into OS 9.2.2) to image my 800kB ProDOS
floppies, BTW. 

As was mentioned, OS 9.2.2 was never fixed of a terrible bug in that if you
attempt to WRITE (at all) to a ProDOS formatted floppy, you go on
'lockdown'. Earlier OS versions just gratuitously added a resource fork to
non-forked files. Ah, those Macheads at Apple must have had no love for
ProDOS.





Hugh Hood




in article 25a95e81-8071-4ba9-b432-962c54ef10e1@googlegroups.com, oz390gta
at oz390gta@gmail.com wrote on 9/2/12 5:10 PM:

> 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.
> 
> oz390gta