"Market" for old macs?

[Jim Leonard]

Chuck Guzis wrote:
> On 11/30/2005 at 5:07 PM der Mouse wrote:
>>...for example, it may be that "modern" floppy drives are capable of
>>things that drives current when the gadget was produced aren't.
> 
> I've actually found somewhat the reverse to be true, at least as far as
> floppy drives go.  Or am I missing something when I don't succeed in
> reading an 800K Mac floppy in my nice shiny new USB drive?

Well, to be fair, it's the *controller* you should be blaming and not the 
drive.  I'm sure floppy drive technology hasn't changed in 15 years, but the 
controllers and software support sure has.

For the record:  It is impossible to write 800K mac floppies (and 880K Amiga 
disks) if you have a traditional NEC-based floppy controller.  Through extreme 
clever trickery you can *READ* Amiga 880K disks (Disk2FDI), but so far nobody 
has been able to read Mac 800K disks.
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