mitchell@tci.UUCP (Rob Mitchell) (08/03/90)
Hi, Just wondering what kind of hardware people use. Do most people have original Apple equipment or do most people buy third party h/w and s/w? I'm especially interested in third party SCSI/DMA boards for the Apple IIGS used in conjunction with third party drives. Do third party hardisks have correct drivers/formatting software that allows it to work on IIGS (instead of, say, a Mac)?? I'll post responses as they accumulate. What third party monitors and floppy drives are there? Is there a floppy that can read/write 1.2Mb, 800K, 400K, 720K Mac and DOS disks??
MQUINN%UTCVM@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU (08/03/90)
>Is there a floppy that can read/write a 1.2Mb, 800k, 400k, 720k, Mac >and DOS disks? Yes. (except for the 1.2Mb, and I'm not sure which "DOS" you're refferring to. MS-DOS? Apple DOS 3.3, Amiga DOS, Mac DOS? GS-DOS? ProDOS?)... Anyway, the Apple 3.5" drive (NOT the Unidisk 3.5") can read Mac 800k, 400k, ms-dos 720k, and of course prodos and GS/OS. You can't access the files on a mac disk, but you can easily do a disk copy or sector edit on one. If you have a program called HFS something... you can actually copy Mac files to ProDOS. To use the ms-dos 720k disks, you need a PC-Transporter, but you use the same drive. I'm sure it would be possible to read/write ms-dos disks from apple mode, but as far as I know, there are no programs out that do it and Apple STILL hasn't given us an FST for it, but I'm sure they'll come around some day.