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Subject: Re: Survery: What h/w and s/w do you use??
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Date: 3 Aug 90 06:32:11 GMT
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>Is there a floppy that can read/write a 1.2Mb, 800k, 400k, 720k, Mac
>and DOS disks?

Yes. (except for the 1.2Mb, and I'm not sure which "DOS" you're refferring to.
MS-DOS? Apple DOS 3.3, Amiga DOS, Mac DOS? GS-DOS? ProDOS?)... Anyway, the
Apple 3.5" drive (NOT the Unidisk 3.5") can read Mac 800k, 400k, ms-dos 720k,
and of course prodos and GS/OS.  You can't access the files on a mac disk, but
you can easily do a disk copy or sector edit on one.  If you have a program
called HFS something... you can actually copy Mac files to ProDOS.  To use
the ms-dos 720k disks, you need a PC-Transporter, but you use the same drive.
I'm sure it would be possible to read/write ms-dos disks from apple mode, but
as far as I know, there are no programs out that do it and Apple STILL hasn't
given us an FST for it, but I'm sure they'll come around some day.