1 Dec
2005
1 Dec
'05
6:31 p.m.
>>For the record: It is impossible to write
800K mac floppies (and 880K
>>Amiga disks) if you have a traditional NEC-based floppy controller.
Chuck
Guzis wrote:
> You know, I told someone that 10 years ago and
was called a liar. I
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Jim Leonard wrote:
I said "write". Are you saying you know of
an x86 program that writes data to
800K Mac disks using only the NEC controller?
No,
He's expressing some amusement or annoyance about people who refuse to
believe that it is impossible.
At Comdex once, I had a "heckler" who INSISTED that Apple ][ disks could
be read and written by the PC "because they are both 300 RPM".
He kept DEMANDING to know why we "refused" to do it.
I finally got rid of him by telling him that the reason why we didn't do
it was because of threats from Apple's lawyers. (NOT TRUE)
There HAVE been two companies who DID make such threats! (At NCC 1983)
They couldn't imagine ANY possible use for copying files from one disk
format to another other than "to steal our software."
(I added both of those formats to XenoCopy that night in my hotel room,
but they never kept their promise to sue me.)
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com