"Dr.O.M.Betz" wrote:
>
> (After I managed somehow to stop laughing): Hats off to the both of you:
> Bob for seeing Europe as it should be - one place to live and share. And
> John for making clear that, while distances may be different from american
> proportions, it's not just going from Greece to France or Iceland for tea
> and picking up a couple of floppies. Macs in eastern Europe - (remember
> Jakub Friedl?) Rare and far between.
Oh boy, is this true about Greece! Mac users are way too outnumbered by
pee-cee users. Fortunately, we have started to get organised, and three or
forth months ago we've created the Hellenic Macintosh User Group (HELMUG.
warning, helmug, not hellmug :-). We are doing a great job, and recently we've
build an excelent site at www.helmug.gr Most of this page is in greek, so I
don't think that you'll be able to see anything. But maybe it's worth a visit!
:-)
Also, some friends of mine have started publishing a magazine, named
"macland". Superb!!! Truly excellent!
So it seams that mac-things in Greece are getting better and better! :-)
> So let's sponsor them. As shipping
> from Germany to Greece isn't just as expropriative as it is from the U.S.
> of A., I'd be willing to mail to @angelo just the couple of 800k floppies
> he needs, eventually containing one piece or another of system software
> useful on a Plus, if he mails me his snailmail address offlist.
For any other offers, please send me a personal e-mail! :-) Don't laugh, I'm
not kiding... :-)
>
> But there's one thing that worries me about this Plus: What if it were a
> semi-upgraded 512 with a 400k floppy (if such a thing exists)? That would
> be an explanation for the "Plus" not accepting HD floppies formatted as
> 800k on the external floppy drive attached to the iMac. Notwithstanding the
> usual warnings against fooling an 800k drive into taking a HD disk for a DD
> by taping the hole, as this trick may turn out as a very provisional
> solution. But I think this subject is covered in the FAQ to your heart's
> delight. Anyway, I don' feel it was too bright to give him these disks with
> the Plus ;-).
>
> Cheers, OM
>
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