Re: MultiMegabyte floppy for the II?

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Wayne Stewart wrote:

>I was in a camera store and saw an interesting product. There's these
>memory sticks that are used in video cameras and whatnot. Sony makes
>an floppy didk adapter. You plug the memory stick into the device and
>insert it into your floppy drive. Supposed to be compatible with Macs
>and PCs. Unfortunately didn't mention Apple IIs but I imagine it may
>work on a IIgs with a SuperDrive. May or may not work on other Apple IIs
>with SuperDrives. If it does work then it'd be a really handy way to
>transfer data. I'm hoping someone's tried it and can say whether it
>works. since I don't think I have any use for it if it doesn't work
>with an Apple II.

These adapters have been available for SmartMedia for several
years.  And SmartMedia has the advantage of being about 20%
cheaper than Sony's proprietary Memory Sticks.

It seems likely that a SuperDrive could read and write to
them, but I wonder whether they could be formatted as other
than FAT 12 floppies?

Even this would not be a stopper, since MUG should be able
to do the job.

-michael

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