Re: Is ProDOS supported in OSX?

[salfter@salfter.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter)]

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In article <j0HRa.16476$EZ2.13168@nwrddc01.gnilink.net>,
Michael Pender <mpender@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Paul Schlyter <pausch@saaf.se> wrote in message
>news:bf5t9q$1hks$1@merope.saaf.se...
>> OTOH it's a lot of pain to have to maintain a lot of old hardware
>> just because you don't want to move your old files on to newer
>> media.  No, one old Mac is of course not "a lot of old hardware",
>> but if you us ethis logic for another few decades, you will
>> probably end up with numerous pieces of old hardware.
>
>Its hardly "painful" to buy a Powermac for ~$15 and have it available so I
>can transfer files from my Apple II to my PC, or out onto the web.

I thought I read something here a while back suggesting that the floppy
drives used in most PowerPC-based Macs were different in some way that made
them less reliable when working with 800K disks.  If you're buying a cheap
older Mac for purposes of moving data between your Apple IIs and the rest of
the world, you might be better off buying a Quadra or other 68K Mac instead. 
(I haven't personally verified this problem with my beige G3 because Mac OS
X doesn't support the built-in floppy drive, but I know my Quadra 610 will
format & write disks that my IIGS can read.)

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