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From: mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: AFE
Message-ID: <36912@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 1 Dec 89 05:58:25 GMT
References: <8911302115.AA26749@apple.com>
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In article <8911302115.AA26749@apple.com> UD182050@VM1.NODAK.EDU (Mike Aos) writes:
>Can't Apple File Exchange read 720K MS-Dos disks?  I've been DL'ing GIF
>pics on an IBM at 19.2K BPS, with the intention of converting them to
>ProDos, via AFE on a Mac II.  The Mac won't read the MS-Dos disk.  Any
>suggestions?
>
>Mike

AFE can read the disks just fine.  It's the disk drive that can't.  The low-
level disk format between Apple and MS-DOS disks are different.

If you have one of Apple's SuperDrives (FDHD) that was announced last year
with the Macintosh IIx (and now comes standard with all SEs, IIxs, etc.)
you can read the disks just fine, and AFE will perform as you planned.

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