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From: SASQUATCH@ALBION.BITNET ("Kevin O. Lepard")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Superdrive and MacTrans GS
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Date: 13 Dec 88 15:47:00 GMT
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Does anyone know if there is a versionof MacTrans GS that works with 800K
Mac Disks?  Or, better yet, if there is a Mac FST available for the GS?
Also, does anyone know if there is a MS-DOS FST available or in the works?
A+ said that such a FST would have limited usefulness because the regular
Apple 3.5" drives used a different formatting scheme.  That is correct,
but the 3.5" drive can easily read and write to disks formatted on MS-DOS
machines.  If you do an MS-DOS format on an Apple 3.5" drive _then_ you may
have problems using that disk on MS-DOS machines depending on the drive they
are using.  I think, therefore that a MS-DOS FST would be very useful since
there is a proliferation of MS-DOS clones here; data transfers would not be
a problem as long as I used disks formatted on MS-DOS clones.

With regard to the new Superdrive in the Mac IIx, are there any plans for
marketing it as a separate drive for use w/ the Mac and IIGS?  If so, what
is the expected price on it?

Thanks in advance.

Kevin Lepard
Bitnet:  Sasquatch@albion.bitnet