Re: Bernie the rescue in OSX

[Greg Buchner <apple22@mn.rr.com>]

In article <sImke.10091$eR.3463@fe05.lga>,
 "Bible John" <john.doggett@x-files.gov> wrote:

> I hear
> that newer oses do not support ProDOS floppies.  My old Performa 6360 did
> indeed support ProDOS disks.  They could be physicially inserted, or created
> into a disk image.

I don't have floppy drives on either of my OS X systems and I say good 
riddance.  Their old ancient technology that I keep a Quadra 650 around 
as an Apple II peripheral.  That way I can only turn it on the 1-2 times 
a year that I need to.

As for floppies in a Mac, in my Beige G3, when it was my primary desktop 
computer, despite having a door on the floppy drive, it'd collect so 
much dust from the power supply fan moving air through the computer that 
if I needed to use it, I had to run a disk cleaner through it first.  I 
eventually replaced the floppy drive with another HD so I could get 3 
IDE hard drive, an IDE CD-ROM drive and a SCSI drive internal in the G3.  
Was far more useful than the floppy drive ever was.

Greg B.

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