[OT] Help with ancient Mac

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On Tuesday 12 July 2005 10:35 am, Mark J. Dulcey wrote:

> The 800K floppies were written with the same head design as 720K
> floppies; the reason you got 800K instead of 400K is that the disks were
> double-sided. 
Thanks Mark,
I actually have some old floppies going back to my Atari ST days that I 
never discarded that contains some software. 
I haven't looked, but is there code available on Linux for formatting the 
Mac 800K encoding. I know that you can format the 720K natively using 
fdformat(8). 

But, the main issue is just getting a boot disk for him, and I think that a 
couple of people may have it. 

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