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From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Why are you selling your Amiga??
Message-ID: <2008@cadovax.UUCP>
Date: 24 Mar 88 19:00:10 GMT
References: <702@oberlin.UUCP> <704@oberlin.UUCP> <2001@cadovax.UUCP> <733@ndsuvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Organization: Contel Business Systems, Torrance, CA
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In article <733@ndsuvax.UUCP> ncreed@ndsuvax.UUCP (Walter Reed) writes:
>In article <2001@cadovax.UUCP> keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle) writes:
>>......................  The Amiga hardware allows IBM compatibility (720K),
>>(ever hear of Dos-2-Dos?) why didn't the Mac?
>Umm, the mac used 3 1/2 drives way before IBM ever did (at least in PC  
>products...)  I remeber when people had trouble finding "those funny little
>disks."  At that time, there really wasn't a standard and it allowed apple
>to put more information on a single sided disk than other methods.

Yes you're right, I forgot Mac started the 3 1/2" drives.

Never mind.

Still, once both Mac and PC format drives are out there, if you had
to pick between the formats for an existing standard to support, I
would pick the IBM formats (based on standard 5-1/4" MFM/M2FM) over 
the Mac's bizzare variable speed format.  And knowing Apple, they'd
probably sue you for using it anyway.

Keith