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Re: PowerPC Mac's Dont like 800k disks!!

Subject: Re: PowerPC Mac's Dont like 800k disks!!
From: dmcclain@runet.edu (Dennis McClain-Furmanski)
Date: 1995/12/10
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Organization: Radford University
References: <4a1bba$2qk@apollo.csd.net> <4a5e1g$fif@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4a6iqc$35l@apollo.csd.net> <4a8i6b$qtr@acme.freenet.columbus.oh.us> <Pine.SUN.3.91.951208071609.819A-100000@sunspot.tiac.net>

Programer (progrmer@tiac.net) wrote:
: 
: The new PowerPC Mac's have new floppy controllers in them and they 
: trash/cant read/hate/dispise 800k floppyies!!!!
: 
: i've had 2 dozen disks damaged by powermac drives and good disks that 
: read fine in a 680x0 mac or APple II not read in a PowerMac...
: 
: just a warning to everyone!!!

I'll confirm that.
It's a damn finicky machine. Don't stick anything in it you can't afford 
to lose.

Follow-Ups:
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References:
- Re: Patch for **MAJOR** HFS.FST Bug
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- Re: Patch for **MAJOR** HFS.FST Bug
  - From: dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)
- PowerPC Mac's Dont like 800k disks!!
  - From: Programer <progrmer@tiac.net>

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