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

[schefflr@news.msus.edu (Bill Scheffler)]

Nathan Mates (nathan@visi.com) wrote:
:    Except for the 5.25" drive that plugged into the //e emulation card
: for some LC-style Macs, you can't access Apple II 5.25" disks from a
: mac.

:    Chalk it up to another layer of "shafting backwards compatability
: and trying to divorce all traces of a good past."

	Well, I dunno how pratical it would be to have built-in support
for a 140k drive on a Mac...but someone should create a "Mac addon" for
those who need access to the older drives.  Perhaps a card (kinda
difficult since you have the "LC Type slot", NuBus, and now PCI slots.
Although, the later could be useful in developing a simple (inexpensive)
card that would let both PC's and Macintosh's read Apple II formatted
diskettes (with driver software for each machine of course).
	However, for the sake of progress, I don't think Macs (or PC's)
should have to support old (but reliable) hardware standards.

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