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

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Subject: Re: TI-H: Why expander? Why compress? Use a FDD!
From: larry1492@juno.com (Larry G Currie)
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 21:51:15 -0500
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I really don't want to drag this out, but at High School, we had those
bloated Mac LC new generation (W/ 4xcd-rom), and the ones that looked
like a Compaq PC.  On some, you could hotkey to dos.  Others not.  But on
all of them, I could format the 3.5" as IBM disk, and write to a regular
3.5" IBM disk, mainly working w/text and (Golleee!) graphics from my PC. 
These were factory Macs W/no software but Clarisworks, Some w/ Pagemaker
and Adobe Illustrator.  No one liked my idea to install CorelDraw  (C'mon
it's only $400- and it's not my money).  So as hard Disks amd Mac 3.5",
they use MacFS, but can use IBM 3.5" disks (We're talking 2-3 year old
macs at the most) as my newspaper class used IBM formatted 3.5" disks for
stories on Macs because that's what RJ and I purchased.
~Larry C
Larry1492@juno.com

>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

>Michael:
>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.
>

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