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From: marc@Apple.COM (Mark Dawson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: 800K drives read MS-DOS???
Message-ID: <40688@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 2 May 90 18:00:59 GMT
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>In article <40653@apple.Apple.COM> marc@Apple.COM (Mark Dawson) writes:
>>In article <13181@venera.isi.edu> jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan) writes:
>>Kennect makes a product called "Rapport" (mail order under $250...maybe under
 [stuff deleted] 
>
>Actually, you can format them.  Apple file exchange will work with the
>Rapport, and let you format a 720K diskette in a conntected external
>drive.  You can't use the ERASE disk on the SPECIAL menu, though.
>
>
>Marty
>Marty Connor, Marty's Computer Workshop,  "Specializing in Macintosh Training"
>126 Inman Street, Cambridge, MA 02139; (617) 491-6935
>mdc@entity.com, or ...{harvard|uunet}!mit-eddie!spt!mdc

You can't format MSDOS disks using the regular 800K drives using Rapport (you
can using the Drive2.4 they sell, but not using the Apple 800K drives).  If
that is what you meant, then your were/are correct (I wrote the original
Mac software for Rapport && just called Kennect to verify they haven't changed
that section of it).

I agree that its a good product (not that it would have anything to do with
the fact that I spent 1-1 1/2 years of my life writing the software for it).

Mark
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