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From: blob@apple.com (Brian Bechtel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Reading/Writing 720K MSDOS disks
Message-ID: <6926@internal.Apple.COM>
Date: 27 Feb 90 16:02:01 GMT
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In article <1209@mindlink.UUCP> a72@mindlink.UUCP (Raman Anand) writes:
> Is there a PD or Commercial software for reading/writing 720K MSDOS disks
> on a MAC+ 800K drive?

No.  The Mac Plus uses a different bit-encoding method (GCR) than MS-DOS 
floppies (MFM).  Apple's FDHD drive (available as an upgrade for older Mac 
SE and Mac II computers, standard on all Macs currently sold except the 
Plus) reads and writes GCR and MFM, so it can use software such as Apple 
File Exchange or Dayna's DosMounter to read and write MS-DOS floppies.

You can buy external add-on drives which work with the Mac Plus; Dayna and 
Kennect (among others) sell such drives.

--Brian Bechtel     blob@apple.com     "My opinion, not Apple's"