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From: wsinkees@lso.win.tue.nl (Kees Huizing)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Can A Mac 3.5 Floppy Be Used In A PC/AT Clone?
Message-ID: <808@tuewsd.lso.win.tue.nl>
Date: 8 Jan 90 13:53:41 GMT
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Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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forrest@sybase.com writes:

>Let's say I have a Mac SE with 2 floppies and a PC/AT clone that
>supports 3.5 inch disks. I get a hard disk for my Mac and don't need
>both floppy disks in the Mac anymore. Can I move one of the floppies
>from the Mac to the PC/AT? Any thoughts on this matter would be
>appreciated.

There exists a PC (half) board to interface an external Apple floppy drive
to a PC.  See my posting "MS-DOS floppies on a Mac Plus" in comp.sys.mac.
Perhaps this can be made to work for an internal one too.  See an ad in a
recent issue of Byte (mail if you want to know the number).

						Kees
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