ds4a@dalton.acc.Virginia.EDU (Dale Southard) (01/19/91)
from article Message-ID: <261Gk7p@cs.psu.edu> Why doesn't Apple ship machines with the 2.88MB floppies that are used in the NeXT? Reply: The NeXT drives are constant rpm (MFM) types. The older apple drives, 400 & 800K, used a varible speed mechanism (GCR format). To get to 1.44MB, apple came up with the FDHD drive, which reads both MFM and GCR (apple 1.44 meg floppies are MFM). Apple certainly could put a 2.88 meg floppy in one of their computers, but it would not be able to read the older floppies (400 & 800). That's why the NeXT as of yet, cannot read any mac floppies other than the 1.44 meg. That's why you should be wary of cheap aftermarket "superdrives" some of them can only read the 1.44 meg. Of course, I could be wrong :-) --> --> Dale (ds4a@virginia.edu)