![]() given its quite hard to find and control those old floppy drives compared to our bog-standard ‘shugart 34 pin’ pc types, there’s incentive to try to get these to read cleanly on cheap and available hardware. ![]() Mac floppies also rotate at different speeds depending on the track, which is also a joy. that’s because there’s technically more surface area on the outer edges of the disc where the lower number tracks live. there’s four groupings of tracks, and there are MORE sectors on the outer tracks (tracks 0 thru 31) than on the innermost sectors (64 thru 79). Unlike ibm pc formatting, there are not a fixed number of sectors per track. but 800K floppies are really clever/freaky! Part of our floppy quest is we want to read mac 800k floppies – partially because there’s a lotta good content out there on 800k floppies, and partially because we are still heading towards imaging the prince floppy (which, being 800k formatted made it a bit of a pain to read).ġ.4MB floppies on mac are easily readable because by the time they got to 1.4MB apple stopped being clever with their disk formatting.
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