[OT] Help with ancient Mac

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 04:17:52AM -0400, John Abreau wrote:
> I don't know where I'd find floppies for it, though; does anyone 
> still make them? I imagine 20-year-old floppies probably would 
> have rotted away by now and be unusable. 

The floppies aren't the problem; it's finding a working drive to
format and write them. Macs used 3.5" floppies formatted to
800KB, rather than 720KB: the tracks were written by a narrower
head. IIRC, Amigas oould deal with the same format.

Later Macs switched to the standard 1.44MB format when those
drives became available.

-dsr-