29 Jan
2023
29 Jan
'23
1:14 p.m.
On Jan 29, 2023, at 11:23 AM, Cameron Kaiser via
cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
Thanks Cameron, that jogs a few old brain cells, and sounds right. Initially I thought
this had something to do with FASTBACK on MS-DOS, which made zero sense, as I was finding
them on FASTBACK backup floppies. Then I realized some of the floppies were just simple
data floppies.
I’m finding Google has limited knowledge of some of this stuff.
Zane
I’m looking at some 3.5” floppies from about
1995, so probably about the time I got my first Mac.
Am I correct that System 7 used A:\RESOURCE.FRK\DESKTOP as the Resource Fork data? MacOS
12.5 doesn’t appear to use it. :-)
A bunch of the floppies I’m looking at have this, including ones that appear to be PC
Backups.
That sounds like a floppy disk written by PC Exchange. RESOURCE.FRK would
contain any resource fork for any file in that folder, so at the root
\RESOURCE.FRK\DESKTOP would probably have been the equivalent of the Desktop
folder.