Re: Old 3.5 inch floppies

[James S Jones]

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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