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From: phaedrus@blake.acs.washington.edu (the Wanderer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: replacement 800K drives
Message-ID: <4085@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 18 Oct 89 01:16:54 GMT
References: <4744@ncar.ucar.edu>
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In article <4744@ncar.ucar.edu> schabtac@stout.ucar.edu () writes:
>This may be a naive question, but is it possible to use MS-DOS 720K 3.5"
>disk drives with a Mac Plus?  When I flip through Computer Shopper or Byte,

     I would highly doubt it.  IBM-type 3.5" drives have a motor that
operates at a constant speed; Macintoshes expect a drive with a motor that
slows down when the head moves to the outer tracks (allowing more information
to be read from these tracks).  At the very least, a completely new driver
would be needed to make a single-speed drive work with a Mac, and such
a drive would produce disks incompatible with normal Mac disks.


>--Adam                    *  *  *  KILL YOUR TELEVISION  *  *  *      
>schabtac@stout.ucar.edu      


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