[rescue] imaging old Mac double density floppy disks

Peter Corlett abuse at cabal.org.uk
Wed Jun 21 05:32:20 CDT 2006


On 21 Jun 2006, at 06:10, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
[...]
> It read 1.4 meg floppies. There is NO WAY to read 800k or 400k  
> floppies
> on a standard PC without special hardware.

The Amiga's esoteric floppy controller could read them, which  
suggests that a Catweasel board, a similarly flexible controller  
intended to read Amiga floppies, could also read Mac floppies.  
Whether there's any driver support for Mac floppies is another matter.



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