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From: baum@Apple.COM (Allen J. Baum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Floppy drives and differing formats
Message-ID: <47234@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 10 Dec 90 17:36:03 GMT
References: <5350@rex.cs.tulane.edu>
Reply-To: baum@apple.UUCP (Allen Baum)
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
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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?

Someone has. They're called Apple computer. All the newer Macs have drives
that can read both formats (with appropriate software, which you can also
get from Apple)
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