"Market" for old macs?

[Chuck Guzis]

On 12/1/2005 at 5:30 PM Jim Leonard wrote:

>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.

In a USB drive, where does the drive end and the controller start?    And,
for the record, many older drives tend to be better constructed with some
notable exceptions (e.g. Chinon).

>For the record:  It is impossible to write 800K mac floppies (and 880K
>Amiga  disks) if you have a traditional NEC-based floppy controller.

You know, I told someone that 10 years ago and was called a liar.     I
wonder if the parallel-port kludge will let the Mac 800K format
through--though that's not using the NEC controller to do anything but move
the heads and select the drive, something that the parallel port could also
do easily.

Cheers,
Chuck