Re: Macs and 800K disks

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <11SEP199619560034@vax2.concordia.ca>,
Mitchell Spector <spec@vax2.concordia.ca> wrote:

>    Too bad Apple removed the Diskport (for supporting external floppy
>drives) from all current Macintosh systems. Actually I think beginning
>sometime in 1993, the Diskport was removed and Apple replaced the Sony
>mechanism with an inexpensive IBM-brand floppy mechanism.

Actually longer ago than that, Quadras and Powerbooks don't have a disk port
and they came out starting in '91.
I don't think IBM makes floppies, you must be saying PC style floppies. They
aren't like that, they still have power eject and can read GCR disks. They only
lack the Sony patented auto inject mechanism. Powerbooks have had manual
inject from the get go, probably since they can be smaller because they don't
have the inject hardware.

>    These days dealing with 800K is a non-issue for me, since I can now
>have my IIgs access 1.44MB HFS diskettes via my SuperDrive. :-) (and
>especially nice being able to share disks between IBM PC's, which are
>the majority of systems out there).

Me too, I have a superdrive plus a network so I get around it two ways
-- 
Randy Shackelford                                 US Air Force officer
shack@frii.com                                    and Apple aficionado