>So they are available for more than just the Mac. I think the one I
>bought for my father's iMac (so he can transfer pics from his Mavica
>camera) was not Mac specific and was supported by Windows and Linux
>according to the box (but the drive sucks, its PAINFULLY slow to copy
>data, far slower than the USB bus so the speed isn't killed by that...
>IIRC, its a "SanDisk" brand drive, but I could be wrong).
Using *ANY* floppy on a PowerMac is painfully slow. When I was getting ready to move from my 8500/180 to my G4/450 AGP I wanted to image a large number of floppies that I had. I ended up doing the imaging on my PowerBook 540c, transfering them via ethernet to the 8500 and burning them to CD. That was a *LOT* faster than doing the reading directly on the 8500.
Worse, some of these USB floppies need to be connected directly to the system, rather than hooking them into a Hub. Both my Mom and a friend of mine have drives like this.
Zane
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