Re: ProDOS disk on Mac

[Bryan Villados <news001@macgeek.org>]

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I haven't had any problems up to this point... I have a Power Mac
8600/250 running Mac OS 8.6. I regularly use ProDOS diskettes on this
machine. I think I would have heard something like you mentioned by
now.

In article <7t93kt$2ib@enews1.newsguy.com>, James OReilly
<joreilly@smtp.dorsai.org> wrote:

> I've been told by very knowledgeable and reliable people that one can read
> Apple II 800k DS/DD 3.5" disks on the Mac with Mac disk drives.  On the
> other hand, a friend tells me that while her Mac SE 30 can read the disks,
> doing this on later model Macs may ruin the disk drive.  Does anyone have
> any knowledge or experience with regard to this question?
> 
>                                         Thank you
>                                         Jim O'Reilly

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Bryan Villados
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