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From: dahosek@biivax.dp.beckman.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Reading Mac diskettes on a PC
Message-ID: <1991May17.095903.314@biivax.dp.beckman.com>
Date: 17 May 91 16:59:03 GMT
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In article <1991May17.154148.6341@leland.Stanford.EDU>, aaron@jessica.stanford.edu (Aaron Wallace) writes:
> Because Apple used a non-standard encoding method, and variable speed
> drives, based on the old Apple II.  

Actually, the II had straightforward 16 (or 13) soft sector
formatting on its disks. It was the Apple Lisa (do any of those
puppies still exist?) which introduced variable speed disk
drives. They had special 5.25 disks with extra notches and slots
and it sounded like it was singing when it wrote to the disk.

-dh

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