> On Jan 29, 2023, at 11:23 AM, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I’m looking at some 3.5” floppies from about 1995, so probably about the
>> time I got my first Mac.
>> Am I correct that System 7 used A:\RESOURCE.FRK\DESKTOP as the Resource Fork
>> data? MacOS 12.5 doesn’t appear to use it. :-)
>> A bunch of the floppies I’m looking at have this, including ones that appear
>> to be PC Backups.
>
> That sounds like a floppy disk written by PC Exchange. RESOURCE.FRK would
> contain any resource fork for any file in that folder, so at the root
> \RESOURCE.FRK\DESKTOP would probably have been the equivalent of the Desktop
> folder.
Thanks Cameron, that jogs a few old brain cells, and sounds right. Initially I
thought this had something to do with FASTBACK on MS-DOS, which made zero
sense, as I was finding them on FASTBACK backup floppies. Then I realized some
of the floppies were just simple data floppies.
I’m finding Google has limited knowledge of some of this stuff.
Zane
