Although they will be difficult to find now. (There were G4 upgrades up to 1 GHz, or dual 500 MHz available. The 20 pin pinout is very similar from the original Disk II though the 20 pin connector on the Bondi Blue iMac that was never populated/implemented.Ī beige G3 with a decent G4 upgrade, a SATA card and faster hard drive, and a lot of RAM would be a pretty usable computer.
#IMATION SUPERDISK LOUD PC#
The Applied Engineering PC Transporter uses a "hybrid" revision of the IWM (Incredible Woz Machine) that supports MFM as well as GCR, but only Double Density. The Apple II was first to have double sided 3.5" disk storage support, and it never had single sided 3.5" disk support officially. 3 years and 5 months after the Apple /// was released. This was done to allow the same disks to be interchanged between the II and ///, although the ProDOS was not released for the Apple II until just before Halloween 1983. Some other semi-related bits, the Apple /// boot information is stored on Block $01 on the SOS/ProDOS filesystem, and the Apple II uses Block $00 on the same disk. MFS and HFS on 3.5" drives use the same encoding method, and the FileWare (Twiggy) drive uses a similar method of encoding.Īpple only supported MFM with the later Mac models, starting with the Mac SE & II. Woz's devised recording method that eventually became the 16 Sector floppy disk standard formatting scheme on the Apple II was also used by the Apple /// for SOS filesystem, and was used on the Apple II by ProDOS as well. That means MFM, 720K/1.44MB only, and most USB Floppy drives won't even do double density, only high density. USB Floppy Drives, Imation SuperDisk, and the Insite Floptical do -not- support GCR, only MFM, with regards to 3.5" floppy disks. I now have an Apple SuperDrive also, have yo say they work about the same, except the Apple SuperDrive is a bit louder and has more vibration but it doesnt. Although they will be difficult to find now.)
#IMATION SUPERDISK LOUD MAC OS#
Needless to say, they also can run up to Mac OS 9.2.2 officially - which is what you would have to run to use the floppy drive anyway.Ī beige G3 with a decent G4 upgrade, a SATA card and faster hard drive, and a lot of RAM would be a pretty usable computer.
#IMATION SUPERDISK LOUD MAC OS X#
The beige G3 came with a floppy drive on all configurations, whereas the PowerBook's floppy drive was optional, with more people opting just for the optical drive than not.īoth can run up to Mac OS X 10.2 officially, and up to 10.4 with the help of XPostFacto. The beige G3 or the PowerBook G3 "Wallstreet" would be the last of the 'shipped with a floppy drive' Macs. No USB drive can read/write 800K Macintosh-format floppies.
(At least with Disk Image - later Mac OSes removed the ability to mount 400K floppies.) Any such Macintosh equal or newer than the Plus and 512kE can read and write 800K floppies, in any 'Classic' version of the Mac OS they support.īut it must be an original Apple-supplied floppy drive. Any Macintosh that shipped from Apple with a floppy drive is capable of reading/writing even the original 400K floppies.