6 Jun
2014
6 Jun
'14
10:19 p.m.
On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Apple switched to the Sony 3.5 inch drive well
before there was any solid
> evidence that it would become an industry standard,
However, if Apple had sued a standard MFM controlelr at the normal data
rate the disk would have been readable by the
controller in an IBM PC.
No, because the IBM PC didn't have 3.5 inch floppy drives at that time. If
it had, it's possible that Apple might have considered doing it, but I
suspect that they still wouldn't have. IBM PC compatibility wasn't
something that they cared much about. They were trying to build something
far better than a PC. Whether they succeeded is obviously a matter of
opinion.