3 Jul
2015
3 Jul
'15
5:14 p.m.
Greetings,
I know this may be OT, but can someone tell me if a modern PC (with a USB
floppy drive) could read 1.44MB floppies from a 68k Mac? I want to use a
Powerbook 190 for some word processing and need a means of transferring
data.
Thanks
Joe
3 Jul
3 Jul
5:33 p.m.
On Fri, 3 Jul 2015, Joe Giliberti wrote:
Greetings,
I know this may be OT, but can someone tell me if a modern PC (with a USB
floppy drive) could read 1.44MB floppies from a 68k Mac? I want to use a
Powerbook 190 for some word processing and need a means of transferring
data.
Hardware, yes.
Software, maybe.
The 1.4M (how many bytes are in a Megabyte?) Mac disks have 512 bytes per
sector, etc. and do not require any different hardware.
If your USB drive permits accessing sectors, then appropriate software on
the PC can read those disks.
NOTE: However, 400K and 800K Mac disks are GCR, instead of MFM, and
require a different disk controller than the standard NEC FDC in PCs.
7 p.m.
Transmac will read read Mac files off 1.44 floppies if you have one of
those USB 3,5 inch drives.
Terry (Tez)
On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
On Fri, 3 Jul 2015, Joe Giliberti wrote:
Greetings,
I know this may be OT, but can someone tell me if a modern PC (with a USB
floppy drive) could read 1.44MB floppies from a 68k Mac? I want to use a
Powerbook 190 for some word processing and need a means of transferring
data.
Hardware, yes.
Software, maybe.
The 1.4M (how many bytes are in a Megabyte?) Mac disks have 512 bytes per
sector, etc. and do not require any different hardware.
If your USB drive permits accessing sectors, then appropriate software on
the PC can read those disks.
NOTE: However, 400K and 800K Mac disks are GCR, instead of MFM, and
require a different disk controller than the standard NEC FDC in PCs.
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