At 22:12 +1100 on 15/01/03, Darren wrote: >Always found this mac quirk interesting. >The amiga formats anything to 880k, I'm yet to lose anything due to
That's because the Amigas can write slightly more tracks on the drive. I remember someone around here had a good explanation of it, but it's nowhere near as different as, say, writing 1.4MB of data on an 800K disk, or vice versa. >Sadly I don't have any macs that need 800k discs to play with it myself. >Is it something to do with the way the 800k mac floppy drive works >rather than the media? No; it's the media. -- the pickle FAQ <http://macfaq.org/index.shtml> _________________________________________________________________ -- 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> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
