[ILUG] Accessing mac files

[Burke, Gary : GIG IS&T]

]> As for the 800Kb disks, the Mac uses a variable speed drive in order to
]> increase the capacity of the disk - slows down when it moves to outer
]tracks
]> thus enabling it to write more.  Cute idea - got 80K more than the PC did
]> (Amiga gets more  :)
]
]Sounds like the scheme ACT Sirius used (with DOS 1.25 or CP/M86) to get
620K
]on a single-sided 5.25" disc (the PC type discs, not the AT version) while
]the PC was getting 180K. Slow as anything and incompatible with everything,
]does the Mac still use it?

It still has the ability to use it, for obvious reasons.  Normally, Floppies
are used at a single speed, just like the PC.  It can still do that trick
for HD Floppies, but preference these days says not to, thus 1.4Mb floppies.

If you have an old DD diskette that used this method, it will still be read
using that method.

BTW: does anyone have a Powerbook Floppy drive that they no longer want?  My
sisters is damaged.



Gary
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