[rescue] Parallel ports [was Re: Slightly OT: ?Bad Cap Saga]

[Robert Brooke Gravitt]

On Aug 21, 2008, at 1:46 PM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 11:40:44AM -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
>> I still use floppy disks on OS X 10.5.4 with the drivers built into  
>> the
>> operating system.
>
> Internal or USB? USB floppy drives use very different drivers than  
> internal
> ones.
>

What's your point? As Jonathon said, you can still use floppies,  
today, on OS X 10.5, with built-in drivers. And the external drives  
read and write to floppies just fine.