Ok, I mis understood this, and I havent worked on a plus in a LONG time. What about MacLink?
-----Original Message----- From: Compact Macs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stuart Bell Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 4:42 PM To: Compact Macs Subject: Re: Getting files off a Plus On 16 Jun 2004, at 20:34, Chuck wrote: > Hi, Sorry but did I miss something? All PC's can read 720K format > floppies, > and a Plus will be able to as well. You SHOULD be able to format your > HD > floppies as DD. At the a command prompt on any PC (Windows or Dos) you > type > format a:/F:720 to get a 720k disk. Now maybe I am wrong, but wont the > Plus > see it as a "IBM Disk" and write to it? You are wrong; it won't. Early Macs, like Apple ][s, used quite non-standard ways of encoding and writing data to floppies, including making the rotational speed variable! There were controllers and drives produced that fitted inside PCs to read/write Apple 400Kb and 800Kb discs, but there's no other way of getting data between using floppies. Once 1.4Mb drives arrived in the SE FDHD, the problems were over. Stuart -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com --------------------------------------------------------------- -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
