Re: making acutal floppys out of .dsk images from the net

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com>]

"Bart Prine" <barpri@saif.com> wrote in message
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> The Color Classic even has a slot for a IIe
> > board, which allows it to function as a IIe, including running from a
ProDos
> > partition on the hard disk (shared with the Mac) and having access to
the
> > Mac's 3.5" floppy as well as an external 5.25" floppy.
> >
> This reminds me of another quest of mine:
> Besides the IIe card there was ANOTHER Mac<>5.25 solution
> loe these many years ago:  A special card for a Compact Mac
> (SE? SE/30?)  that allowed you to hook up a special Apple
> Made 5.25 360k IBM PC type external drive.   I have one of
> those drives but alas no card.  Does anyone know of the card
> of which I speak?  I am looking for one, but I have never seen
> one.  If anyone knows of one, or knows of a online picture of
> one, I woud be grateful.  I am curious to see if one could use
> it to create ProDOS formated 360k MFM PC type disks.  Why?
> to see if they can then be read in 1 a PCTransporter Transdrive
> and 2.  in a Diamond Trackstar E equipped 386 with a 5.25 floppy.
> just tinkering ;)
> -Bart
>

I thought that those drives were SCSI drives so that they
wouldn't need a card to work with the old classic Mac
format like a Mac Plus etc

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