Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!hpfcso!hpfinote!pnl From: pnl@hpfinote.HP.COM (Peter Lim) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: Use 800K Macintosh disk drive on a PC Message-ID: <36690020@hpfinote.HP.COM> Date: 3 Oct 90 17:43:05 GMT References: <1990Oct1.130854.28721@eng.umd.edu> Organization: Hewlett Packard CICD Lines: 24 > Ok, now that we've been told that PC's can't read Macintosh disks, how > about using Macintosh disk drives as PC disk drives? > > I just got a hold of an Apple disk drive, model M0130, which has a > Sony printed circuit board in it, labeled FC-17. Is it possible to > connect this drive to an IBM controller, and use it as a PC disk > drive? (I am talking about using it on a PC to read/write *PC* disks). > Does anyone know what storage capacity this drive is capable of? > Thought I just saw an ad in the latest issue of BYTE (or was it PC Magazine) for a controller which plugs into the PC and connect to a Mac floppy drive to do just what you said above. Regards, ## Life is fast enough as it is ........ Peter Lim. ## .... DON'T PUSH IT !! >>>-------, ########################################### : E-mail: plim@hpsgwg.HP.COM Snail-mail: Hewlett Packard Singapore, : Tel: (065)-279-2289 (ICDS, ICS) | Telnet: 520-2289 1150 Depot Road, __\@/__ ... also at: pnl@hpfipnl.HP.COM Singapore 0410. SPLAT ! #include