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Article #6688Re: Reading Mac diskettes on a PC
From: Aaron Wallace
Date: Fri, 17 May 1991 15:41
Date: Fri, 17 May 1991 15:41
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In article <16288@helios.TAMU.EDU> tony@cs.tamu.edu (Tony Encarnacion) writes: >Why is it that the Mac can read DOS diskettes, but the >PC cannot read Mac diskettes? If there is a PC program >that allows a PC to do this, I'd be interested in having >it... Because Apple used a non-standard encoding method, and variable speed drives, based on the old Apple II. At least, this is so for 400K and 800K disks. You can read a high-density Mac disk in a high-density PC drive just fine--well, you can read the sectors, but you'll need to make sense of the file system on your own. Now, why is there no product to do this? Probably because few people need it. Central Point has a board that lets PCs read the 800K Mac disks--but it's not sold too many units. Sounds like a fun project--I was thinking of doing it myself, but I have minimal docs on the HFS (the Mac file system) and it looks to be a terrible hack if there ever was one! Aaron Wallace
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