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From: jmpiazza@sunybcs.UUCP (Joseph M. Piazza)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Reading MacDisks on Amiga
Message-ID: <3474@sunybcs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 21-May-87 22:23:28 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 21 22:23:28 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 23-May-87 15:03:28 EDT
References: <8705191949.AA17002@cory.Berkeley.EDU> <19304@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: jmpiazza@gort.UUCP (Joseph M. Piazza)
Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science
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In article <19304@sun.uucp> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
... [How the PC2 gets 1.xxx Meg per disk]
>
>... Double the clock, double the sectors (or double the
>size of the sectors). With the above note I am *sure* that IBM left the
>AT type floppy controller intact and switch the data clock between
>250 and 500 kilohertz. (I know dead horse, I'll stop now.)

	It ain't dead yet.  What happens if you do this with an Amiga drive?
What would be needed to make a new Amiga floppy drive do this?

Flip side,

	joe piazza

--- Cogito ergo equus sum.

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