On Nov 30, 7:21 pm, Gregg Eshelman <[email protected]> wrote: > --- On Mon, 11/30/09, dshipwright <[email protected]> wrote: > <clip>> Anyway, one my boxes could read the diskettes if they were > > good, but age took it's toll. > > <clip> > > Only two ways to read Macintosh 400K and 800K floppies. One is with a real > Mac with a floppy drive (but not a > USB floppy drive) the other is with an Amiga or PC with a CatWeasel floppy > controller.
<nitpick> The third way(s) is to use an Outbound Mac Clone. The Outbound used a Citizen brand PC style floppy drive with a controller card interface to read and write 400K and 800K (and 1.4MB) Mac floppies. The controller card is an interesting little piece of technology, which I wish I had more time to look at. There's a PC floppy controller chip (WD37C65) a data separator (WD92C32) a voltage controlled oscillator, a digital potentiometer and a little EEPROM. Oh and a serial controller 85C30.</nitpick> Outbound made portable Macintosh clones in the early 90s using their own hardware with ROMs scavenged from Apple machines. Their laptops and notebooks were very nice for the times and contained a few original innovations. Jeff Walther -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
