Re: TI-H: Why expander? Why compress? Use a FDD!

To: <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
Subject: Re: TI-H: Why expander? Why compress? Use a FDD!
From: Dennis Munsie <munsie@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 98 23:30:01 -0600
Reply-To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org


>Larry Said:
>
>>Actually, All modern era Macs use the PC standard for
>>1.4MB , and possibly 720K, 3.5"FDD's  We could use >the
>existing standard OTHERWISE you would have to >manually put
>games on disk from the calc!  Not a fun >thing to do for
>200+ games.  You could load them on >your disk from the PC.
>>~Larry C
>>Larry1492@juno.com
>
>That's not true. PC's use Fat 16, 32, or NTFS. Macs use the
>Mac file system. They use the same disks but are not
>compatable without special programs.

Not that this is related to TI-Hardware in anyway, but the MacOS has come 
with the software necessary to access PC disks for quite some time now... 
 in 8.1, we can even access VFAT and FAT-32 disks.  And the software 
isn't something you have to think about loading and running..  a PC disk 
looks just like a Mac disk to the average user.

Just my 2 cents...



Dennis

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