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From: c60a-cz@danube.Berkeley.EDU (Donald Burr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Reading Mac floppies on DOS
Keywords: DOS, format, floppies
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Date: 17 Dec 90 10:54:26 GMT
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In article <1990Dec17.024659.27475@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> typ125m@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (John Wilkins) writes:
>ckoch@soul.UUCP (Chriss Koch) writes:
>> Is there a way to read mac floppies on (shudder, gasp, choke, puke...) IBM?
>Answer: Yes. Apparently the Copy II PC board and software will allow
>a 1.44Mb drive to read Mac 800k (& 1.2Mb??) disks on a PC. So a friend
                                    ^^^^^^^
>tells me who has done this (I saw him do it!), altho' I don't know
>the techie details.


Close.  The Mac high density floppies are 1.40 MB. Interesting how they
couldn't fit an extra .04 MB on the newer format.  I wonder how stuff
like tracks per inch, tracks on disk, sectors per track, track/data density,
etc. compares between the Mac 1.40 SuperDrives and the (shudder) IBM 1.44
drives.  Anyone got any answers?

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