Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!linus!linus!linus!dsr From: dsr@mitre.org (Douglas S. Rand) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: 1.44 Mb Floppies on older MACs Message-ID: Date: 18 Jun 91 15:30:50 GMT Sender: news@linus.mitre.org (News Service) Distribution: comp Organization: The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA Lines: 16 Nntp-Posting-Host: mir.mitre.org I was wondering while looking through a copy of the Computer Shopper rag. Are the 1.44 Mb drives for the PC that you can obtain for $60 the same drives used in the Macs these days? I remember the older drives had a funky line for varying the motor speed. Even if these PC drives couldn't read 800k floppies, they would make a nice external drive for backups or writing 1.44 Mb floppies to exchange files and such. -- Douglas S. Rand Internet: Snail: MITRE, Burlington Road, Bedford, MA Disclaimer: MITRE might agree with me - then again... Amateur Radio: KC1KJ