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From: dcc@ccvr1.ncsu.edu (Daniel Carr)
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Subject: Re: 512k
Message-ID: <1991Apr4.215838.28825@ncsu.edu>
Date: 4 Apr 91 21:58:38 GMT
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In article <1991Apr1.212953.20827@uncecs.edu> dlugose@uncecs.edu (Dan Dlugose) writes:
>
>There is no such animal as a Mac that cannot read 800K disks.  The
>worst case is a 128 or 512 unenhanced with a single sided internal
>drive.  On one of these, you attach an external 800K disk drive,
>boot off a single sided disk in the internal drive that has the
>file Hard Disk 20 on it, then insert a 800K disk in the external
>drive, and it is mounted.
>
>The Apple Hard Disk 20, AND 800K disks were invented before Apple
>started manufacturing Macs with 128K ROMs.
>
>Dan Dlugose
>UNC Educational Computing Service



This is not entirely true.  My Macintosh XL can't read 800k disks except
with a costly hardware modification.  The XL has no external floppy
port.  I can use HFS, though.

On that note, if you are at all interested in the Mac XL or Lisa,
please send me mail.  I like to buy/sell/trade/share info.


daniel
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