Re: Read //gs disks on Intel?

[Greg Buchner <nobody@wavetech.net>]

In article <95u1bg$fje$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, Professor Dredd 
<profdredd@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Are you quite certain there's no drive for the new PM's to read 800k
> disks? Why not?

I haven't seen any...the reason why is Apple stopped buying floppy 
drives and no one is making any that are 800K compatible.  All the
USB floppy drives out there are using standard PC mechanisms.

Over the years, I've run across many people who've complained about
the Mac's non-standard drives...now that 'standard' 3.5" floppies are
used on the Macs, there's a whole new group complaining.

You know having a couple of Macs with floppy drives, they've really
gotten to be a waste of space...I never use them for Mac stuff...the
only use I've had for them in the past couple of years has been for
Apple II related stuff.  Heck, I should probably see if I can replace
the 3.5" floppy in my PM7500 with a third hard drive.  Would be much
more useable.

So, if you want to use a Mac as an Apple II peripheral, buy an older
one and network it to the PowerMac.  It'd probably deal with the 800K
drives a lot more reliably than any newer machine that did ship with
a floppy.

Greg B.
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