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Re: Copying Apple Diskettes





Paul Schlyter wrote:

In article <20040508181032274+1200@News.Individual.NET>,
Roger Johnstone  <rojaws@orcon.net.nz> wrote:
In <409bdeeb$1_5@corp.newsgroups.com> Exegete  wrote:


Michael J. Mahon wrote:

There were only three floppy sizes: 400K (single-sided, only used on
_very_ early Macs),

Nitpicking time - the Lisa also used the 400K drives.

Roy

Just think of the Lisa 2 as a _really_ early Mac :o)

Didn't even Apple around 1984-85 rename Lisa 2 to Macintosh XL ????
Presumably the "XL" meant "eXtra Large"..... :-)

The XL had a hardware modification to the screen resolution, so the pixels would be square, like the Mac. Then, of course, one ran the MacWorks software which allowed the Lisa to emulate a Mac. Sorta like the software that allowed a /// to emulate a ][Plus, except the MacXL could have up to 2 megs of RAM at a time when "real" Macs topped out at 512K.

Roy



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