James,
You have stated the facts very clearly. The key here is the nature of the VARIABLE SPEED DRIVE that was used with the Mac 400k and 800k drives. I wonder if this hardware implemented process could be implemented in the software domain? Perhaps it would not be worth the effort. Maybe the best thing is to simply do what Bruce said and move all the old data over using an old machine and system. Reading old disks doesn't have much of a future. If you have a stack of old disks, don't throw away you old mac hardware.
Does anyone remember when the system (8.6 or 9.0) was changed to no longer support the variable speed drives?
Thanks, Larry Blodgett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sep 2, 2004, at 1:28 AM, James S Jones wrote:
800K Mac diskettes can't be read by, written to, or formatted in USB floppy drives. 800k diskettes special, variable speed drives that Apple chose in order to fit roughly 10% more data on a double-density (DD) diskette than the drives used by IBM in the PS/2. This is why Apple diskette drives were much more expensive than those used in PCs. USB drives can read, write to, and format DD diskettes, but only in 720K FAT format.
On Sep 1, 2004, at 7:39 PM, J Sand wrote:
Your other option is to get a usb floppy drive. I know 9.2.2 will work with it, but I don't know about osx.
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