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> but it also means that it's impossible to support the older 400K and 800K Mac formats I'm trying to remember, but was it even possible to format or read 400K
by walrus01 2y ago
> but it also means that it's impossible to support the older 400K and 800K Mac formats
I'm trying to remember, but was it even possible to format or read 400K or 800K mac floppies on a machine that came natively with a 1.44MB drive such as a Mac SE/30 or all the other post-1990 Macs?
- fredoralive 2y agoYes, SuperDrives (and the SWIM and New Age controller chips) can do GCR discs. Mac OS 8 removed support for the original Macintosh File System though, so they’d need to be HFS formatted after that.
- goosedragons 2y agoYes, every floppy equipped Mac had the ability to read/write 400k/800k discs via the SWIM chip. Even the first couple revisions of the iMac G3 had it.