30 Nov
2005
30 Nov
'05
3:12 p.m.
On 11/30/2005 at 5:07 PM der Mouse wrote:
>...for example, it may be that "modern" floppy drives are capable of
>things that drives current when the gadget was produced aren't.
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Chuck Guzis wrote:
I've actually found somewhat the reverse to be
true, at least as far as
floppy drives go. Or am I missing something when I don't succeed in
reading an 800K Mac floppy in my nice shiny new USB drive?
In working with cable-interrupting FDC add-on boards (CopyII Option Board,
Apple Turnover, etc.), I had MUCH better results with old Tandon TM100-2
drives than with anything newer (such as TEAC 55B)
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com