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From: kevin@cbmvax.UUCP (Kevin Klop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Mac --> Amiga
Keywords: floppy reader
Message-ID: <6716@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 29 Apr 89 16:36:46 GMT
References: <709@dutrun.UUCP> <8828@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: kevin@cbmvax.UUCP (Kevin Klop)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <709@dutrun.UUCP> winfnws@dutrun.UUCP (Marinko Laban) writes:
>
>Does anybody know if there exists a program for the Amiga that can
>read apple Macintosh floppies ?
>               jwl@feanor.stanford.edu  BIX: jlockhart


It will take some hardware to read a Mac disk.  The main reason
is that Apple varied the rotational speed of the drives as the head
was moved in and out.  Later on they got smarter and left rotational
speed alone and just changed the data clock.  Both of these result
in a disk structure that can't be read by a fixed-speed drive
like the Amiga's.

Kevin Klop		{uunet|rutgers|amiga}!cbmvax!kevin
Commodore-Amiga, Inc.

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