"Toy" computers (was Re: Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers)

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Thu Apr 25 14:37:55 2002

> However, there were some 3rd party external drives that worked with 1.44
> 3.5 disks, and even with 5.25 and PC disks. And those worked with older
> Macs (at least back to the Mac Plus, and I think as far back as the 512k
> or kE). I think Dayna was an example of a company that made a high
> density external drive for the Plus... and they had a model that had a
> 5.25 drive in the same case (only R/W pc format IIRC). But I assume such
> drives had an init and didn't "just work".

Several of those "drive"s were single board CP/M computers, including a
few that were Ampro. The CP/M computer could read and write MFM
diskettes, and communicate with the Mac. Most used SCSI or serial for the
communication. But they were marketed as MFM "DRIVE"s.
Received on Thu Apr 25 2002 - 14:37:55 BST