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

[Greg Buchner <apple22@mn.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.

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