Re: REQUEST: Apple IIc 5.25" drive to borrow?

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Nathan Mates (nathan@visi.com) wrote:

:    If the first generation of Macs had had 5.25" drives, ProDOS disk
: reading capability, there would have been a much nicer
: transition. But, they were fighting off Steve Jobs who had a worse
: case of Bill Gates's "640K ought to be enough for everyone" desire to
: make the Macs unexpandable and 128K only. [The designers had to sneak in
: the ability to up it to 512K.]

The first Lisas had 5.25 drives

[anti-Apple pissant-ism punted]

:    Macs being compatible with A2 disks and/or programs has always been
: a johnny-come-lately, though if Apple's executives had had one more
: brain cell among them, they would have realized the value of their
: Apple II line.

Apple File Exchange has done ProDOS disks for a good many years, definitely
back into the system 6 era. Then there was the ProDOS extension, later PC
exchange, which gave intrinsic support. Kinda like going from using CONVERT
to having FSTs.
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Randy Shackelford
shack@southwind.net