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Re: Inherited a Macintosh SE unit - what else do I need?

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From: Rebecca and Rowland
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 00:00

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Steve Firth <filter@firthcom.demon.co.uk> wrote:

[snip]

> > The little Mac's probably ideal for a simple & easy to use word processor
> > machine.  I'm not too hopeful though, as I seem to recall Macs having a
> > non-linear disk format with varying speeds depending where the heads are -
> > no PC is going to cope with writing a disk for that!
> 
> You're right, no PC will.

Do you have access to a 32 bit Windoze box?  If so, this might surprise
you:

ftp://ftp.iele.polsl.gliwice.pl/pub/software/emulators/emul8.bydnet.com.
pl/Macintosh/HFSexplorer111.zip

I've not tried it myself (no access to a suitable Wintel box - Rebecca's
still on Win 3.1 at work), but apparently it *will* allow a normal PC
floppy drive to read and write 800K Mac discs.

[snip]

Rowland.

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