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From: awessels@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: running apple software on a mac
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Date: 16 Jun 90 05:46:13 GMT
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In article <90166.140912RP1VOPER@MIAMIU.BITNET> RP1VOPER@MIAMIU.BITNET (Rob Pickering *******) writes:

>In fact if you have a Macintosh with one of Apple's FDHDs you can
>run programs straight off of the floppy drive of the Apple II formatted disk.

You don't need FDHD drives to do this.  ][ in a Mac will read Apple II disks 
just fine and with ProDOS will format them.  I know you can format Apple II
800k disks in the standard floppy drive with Apple File Exchange, but I 
haven't tried it with ][ in a Mac.