disk archivers

From: Jeff Hellige <jhellige_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Wed May 16 11:25:35 2001

On Wednesday, May 16, 2001, at 11:38 AM, Vance Dereksen wrote:
> I think I remember seeing somewhere a USB <-----> Floppy case. Like the
> floppy drive sits in an external case, and has a USB floppy controller
> sitting inside the case with it, and runs just fine on a Mac.

        I've got a USB floppy, made by Teac, on my B/W G3 but have never
seen such a thing for 5-1/4" drives. All of the USB cases I've ever
seen did little more than convert the signals for an IDE drive to USB
with an included converter card in the case. Given that Macs have never
used the 5-1/4" format as a whole I would be real suprised if there was
such a thing. One interesting sidenote is that the ProDos format has
continued to be supported on the Mac all this time, even to the ability
to format disks with it.

        Jeff
Received on Wed May 16 2001 - 11:25:35 BST