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From: hh2x@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: re:1581 drive and msdos
Message-ID: <1990Oct1.110216.209@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
Date: 1 Oct 90 15:02:16 GMT
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In article <kayZVPy00WBLA2Vkxa@andrew.cmu.edu>, rw2w+@andrew.cmu.edu (Robert William Weiman) writes:
> Does anyone know if there is a program (or even if it is possible...)
> to either read 720K MSDOS format disks in this drive - or to read/write
> 1581 disks in a standard pc-clone drive (720K or 1.44M).
> 
> thanks
> bob
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The 1581 can't format MS-DOS disks but it can read them if they're 720K. I
think a program that does this appeared in an old issue of RUN but I don't know
which one.

Aaron