"Market" for old macs?

[Fred Cisin]

> 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.

On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Chuck Guzis wrote:
> 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?

In working with cable-interrupting FDC add-on boards (CopyII Option Board,
Apple Turnover, etc.), I had MUCH better results with old Tandon TM100-2
drives than with anything newer (such as TEAC 55B)

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