Central Point Option Board

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Sun Feb 28 14:23:04 1999

Mike Ford <mikeford_at_netwiz.net> wrote:
> I have a Central Point Option Board, still in the box though, I haven't
> tried it yet. It says 400k and 800k all formats, but I thought that was
> just Mac formats. Anybody know if this board had later software to handle
> 1.44 MB floppies?

If you want to know whether the Option Board works with a 1440K *drive*,
I don't know, but it might. I'm pretty sure the "Deluxe" model does.

If you want to know whether the Option Board works with 1440K Macintosh
diskettes, the answer is that you don't need an Option Board for that.
The Macintosh 1440K media format (known as SuperDrive or FDHD) is exactly
the same as the PC 1440K format. All you need is suitable software.

There is free HFS support for Linux.

Maybe there might also be freeware or shareware to use Macintosh 1440K
diskette under DOS or Windows, but I haven't looked.

Eric
Received on Sun Feb 28 1999 - 14:23:04 GMT