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From: shawn@pnet51.cts.com (Shawn Stanley)
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Subject: Re: Unidisks vs. Apple3.5
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Date: 17 Feb 89 15:45:17 GMT
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jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jeremy G. Mereness) writes:
>My //gs system came with Unidisk3.5 instead of the Apple3.5
>
>I know that the Unidisk is not capable of 2:1 interleave and thus
>some software packages will not run with the device.

With the 2:1 interleave, it will actually take much longer for the Unidisk to
retrieve the sectors.  It's not incapable, though.

>If I sell it, will it work on a Macintosh?

To my knowledge, no.

>And how good are the Laser 3.5 drives? Are they compatible with the
>Apple 3.5 drives or do they have similar problems with the Unidisk?

I don't know much about the Laser 3.5 drives, so I won't try to answer that.

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