> > I use a PowerBook 1400cs a lot. But if I take a floppy I use on it > > and put it in my wife's iMac USB floppy, I often get the floppy needs > > initialization message. But I can read floppies fine on the PB which > > my wife makes on her iMac. Why would that be? > > Funny, I have another 1400 floppy disk weirdness story. A disk formatted in > a Windows PC is readable on my 1400. If, after putting it in and letting it > churn and create its resource fork repository, I put it back in the Windows > PC, the PC will no longer read it. (The 1400 still reads it fine.)
I should mention that while mine *looks* like a 1400c, it started life as a cs/117 and got a lot of upgrades, including a 1400c upper half. -- ---------------------------------- personal: http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ -- Cameron Kaiser, Floodgap Systems Ltd * So. Calif., USA * [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Why is it you can only trust short, dumpy spies? -- Hogan, "Hogan's Heroes" -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.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/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
