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From: buchho@studsys.mu.edu (buchho)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: I*M M*-D*S disks and AMI*A disks
Message-ID: <647@studsys.mu.edu>
Date: 17 Oct 89 08:43:35 GMT
References: <507@fawlty.towers.oz> <8075@microsoft.UUCP>
Reply-To: buchho@studsys.UUCP (buchho)
Organization: Marquette University - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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In article <8075@microsoft.UUCP> brianw@microsoft.UUCP (Brian Willoughby) writes:
>In article <507@fawlty.towers.oz> johnmac@fawlty.towers.oz (John MacLean) writes:
>>Is it true that 720K 3.5" IBM disks use a different physical low level
>>format and so *cannot* be read by 800K Apple drives?
>
>I *think* that's true.
>
Well, the AppleDisk (not Unidisk, well, maybe) CAN read the different low-level
format of the MSDOS 3.5" disks, it was emphasized in the PC Transporter manual.
The AppleDisk 3.5 has the internal routines to do this.  (I also heard there
was 64k stuck in there too...  Query:  What's it used for?)


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