Re: Using older PowerMac to read/write ProDOS diskettes??

[katie.did@pinku.zzn.com (katie did.)]

Greg Buchner <apple22@mn.rr.com> wrote in message news:<apple22-F5F174.08452030102002@apollo-ge0.rdc-kc.rr.com>...
> In article <c3turuo215bgv6u3j0dh98a8fiipej4kts@4ax.com>,
>  Romeo <boogiejr@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > First of all, can any of you Mac gurus tell me if this mac is supposed
> > to be capable of reading/writing prodos disks? If not, how much of an
> > older model do I need to get to do this?
> 
> Pretty much any one that's pre-PowerPC.  I could successfully write 800K 
> ProDOS disks on my Quadra 650 (33MHz '040) and couldn't on my PowerMac 
> 7500.  It was about the time that the PowerPC Macs came out that Apple 
> switched to a cheaper floppy drive that had to be software controlled 
> for doing the variable speed needed to write 800K disks.  All of the 
> drives I've run across that are like this also have a drive door.  I've 
> never run across one on the older ones that work right.
> 
> Greg B.
Read will certainly work on a G3 in an emulator (Bernie), no further
information have I.