Re: Apple Discontinued Products as of 6/13/94

[cdeschu@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Chris Deschu)]

spector@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector) wrote:

>        A two-way MS-DOS FST would be a nice bonus (even though few people
>can actually make use of it, due to hardware required), though support for
>a networking card that was never released and only a dozen or so people
>own seems rather pointless. Unless of course that support could be somehow
>tied in to upcoming Ethernet projects planned. All in all, it's rather
>disappointing to think GS System 6 won't continue to grow, but I guess we
>should be happy with _anything_ we can get now. I think it's especially
>important to address all the bugs that need fixing in System 6.0.1,
>either with a 6.0.2 or 6.1 release!

There are other ways to use an MS-DOS FST... Any SCSI Device which can
be hooked up to both a //gs and an IBM should work, or would work, if
there weren't some annoying limitations.
	Apparently, there are at least two sizes or implementations
of a FAT (File Allocation Table?) in MS-DOS. The current FST only
supports the smaller one, which means that it only works with small
(32 or 64?)mb volumes. A friend of mine has one of those 128mb
Magneto Optical drives, and while it works fine on both the //gs and
the IBM (in their respective filesystems), if you try to use an MS-DOS
cartridge on the GS, it appears to accept it (the finder makes swishing
noises like it's set to for normal disks), it doesn't ask you to
initialize it, but nothing ever shows up on the desktop. I really hope
they fix this limitation too. BTW, the above information regarding the
FST and FAT size was recieved by me courtesy of Jawaid Bazyar. Thanks!
	The 20mb "floptical" drives which are out, would probably work
fine, I would think, as should like a 20mb SCSI Hard Drive. Just go
pick up a scsi card for your IBM...
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