At 3:26 PM -0700 6/9/98, Dr. Bill Studenmund wrote:
>I'm not sure. Can PC's read 1.44 MB Mac (MFM-format) floppies? If so, then
>someone somewhere in the world would need a mac to generate 1.44 MB
>install floppies, then generate gzip'd images of those disks. Then you FTP
>them to a MacOS-less place, make floppies, and you're set.

Yes!

There were some low-level changes to make the Mac 1.44MB format more like
the PC format which is why a Mac "SuperFloppy" drive can read PC-format
disks.  It's also why the Mac 1.44MB format has the same capacity as the PC
1.44MB format.

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