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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Floppy drives and differing formats
Message-ID: <1990Dec11.004044.6535@alphalpha.com>
Date: 11 Dec 90 00:40:44 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?

All of the new Mac machines, and the high-density drives they sell
separately, can read IBM formats.  And you can buy a cheap Init that
will even let all of the files show up on the desktop instead of using
the file converter utility.  I believe their is software for the Amiga
that will read both Mac and IBM disks.
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