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Re: Macintosh 5 1/4" drive wanted



In article <7patth$99j$2@dove.qut.edu.au>, yeo@pigeon.qut.edu.au (Willie 
Yeo) wrote:


> Henrik Gudat (not@available.com) wrote:
>
>  But if that piece of drive (powered via external SCSI) is any use,
> how the hell would it use GCR on the MFM encoding ? I am not even sure if
> it will achieve reading the Apple II disks at all !

Hmm, yeah, I saw such a drive not to long ago at a flea market. We were
inspecting it thoroughly and assumed that it must have been some PC drive
manufactured by Apple. Yet again, it was only guesswork. My conclusion today
is that I should have bought it. :-)

Thanks for the clarification,
henrik