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From: sheinfel@grad1.cis.upenn.edu (Aviad Sheinfeld)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Floppy drives and differing formats
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Date: 10 Dec 90 09:13:27 GMT
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In article <5350@rex.cs.tulane.edu> keating@rex.cs.tulane.edu (John W. Keating) writes:
>Why hasn't anyone come up with a floppy disk that can read and write in both
>IBM and Macintosh (and Amiga, and ...) formats?  Is the hardware so different
>that no one even wants to attempt it, or is it a matter of proprietory
>hardware?
>
>John

John,

The Superdrive that comes standard in all new Apple Macs can
read/write IBM and Macintosh files.  It's great for friends who have
Macs, since my IBM is hooked up to a laser printer :-)

Aviad