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From: rmf@actnyc.UUCP (Robert M. Fuhrer)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.periphs
Subject: Re: MFM encoding question
Message-ID: <801@actnyc.UUCP>
Date: 13 Apr 88 00:42:55 GMT
References: <752@ndsuvax.UUCP> <1140@ssc.UUCP> <1141@ssc.UUCP> <854@gethen.UUCP>
Reply-To: rmf@actnyc.UUCP (Robert M. Fuhrer)
Organization: InterACT Corporation
Lines: 20
Keywords: MFM, Mac, Amiga
Summary: Maybe the Mac *can* read Amiga disks...

In article <854@gethen.UUCP> farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren) writes:
>
>The Amiga is perfectly capable of reading standard IBM-formatted 3-1/2"
>floppies, or writing them.  What more can you ask?  An IBM system can't
>read or write Amiga disks, and a Mac can read and write neither, so
>from my point of view, the Amiga system is probably superior.
>

I recall seeing a product (a software driver!) which allowed the Mac to
read Lisa and Hewlett-Packard 3-1/2" disks awhile back.  This was possible
since the IWM (Integrated Woz Machine, the only hardware dedicated to the task)
did very little of what was necessary to read and write from the floppies; most
was done in software, including controlling the Mac's multiple-speed drive
motors.  It's really very possible that a Mac can read Amiga disks; it's just
that nobody has written the software yet!

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