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Re: MFM or GCR ??
- Subject: Re: MFM or GCR ??
- From: Eric Smith <eric-no-spam-for-me@brouhaha.com>
- Date: 06 May 2003 15:21:56 -0700
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Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@coli.uni-sb.de> writes:
> As for the Mac I don't know if it ever had 5.25 inch drives.
The earliest preproduction Macs used a 5.25-inch drive, but it used
GCR. It was the strange "Twiggy" drive as used in the Apple Lisa. None
of these preproduction Macs were sold for revenue.
For a short while, Apple offered an external 5.25-inch drive for the
Mac SE and Mac II, which did support MFM and was only usable with
Apple File Exchange. It needed a special controller card installed in
the Mac.
And if you had a Mac LC or related machine, and installed the Apple II
card, it could use an external Apple II drive, but only for GCR.
Other than those, the only way to use 5.25-inch drives on a Mac was with
third-party products such as DaynaFile.