Re: Does it exist? Mac USB Floppy drive r/w 800k & ProDOS disks?

["Roger Johnstone" <rojaws@mac.com>]

In article <3c49d9a7.56216443@news1.on.sympatico.ca>, 
CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca (Jeff Blakeney) wrote:


> On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 18:35:05 -0700, Ernie Leimkuhler
> <ernie@stagesmith.com> wrote:
>
>>The only SCSI Floppy drive made was the 20 MB Floptical drive.
>>It could read and write 800k and 1.4 MB floppies as well as it's own 20 MB
>>optical disks.
>
> If I remember correctly, the Flopticals didn't support variable
> rotation speeds or GCR encoding required for 800K support.  They only
> did 720K and 1440K MFM and their own format (20M being most common and
> I believe still MFM).
>
> --
>  Jeff Blakeney - Dean of the Apple II Unversity on A2Central.com
>                - CUT the obvious from my address to e-mail me

The one sold by Applied Engineering supported 800KB disks, as well as 1.4MB
and 20MB, presumably because it was marketed specifically for the Apple II
and Macintosh.

--
Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand

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