Floppies

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Title: Floppies
Post by: JeHorn on August 01, 2011, 04:28:12 PM
Can you read FAT formatted (DOS) 1.44MB floppies in a nextstation?
Title: Floppies
Post by: iMachinchilla on August 04, 2011, 12:29:43 PM
Provided you have NeXTstep 2.0 or above (all through OpenSTEP 4.2) installed on your slab, you can read and write 720 K, 1.44 MB and 2.88 MB FAT-12 (that's DOS and Windows) floppies all day long.  :D
Title: Floppies
Post by: JeHorn on August 04, 2011, 05:20:00 PM
My nextstation has 3.3 on it, sorry I'm a newbie to nextstep, but not linux, is it like linux mounting wise, or is it auto like macs of the day?
Title: Floppies
Post by: pentium on August 04, 2011, 11:57:54 PM
Steve made sure that so long as you had a floppy drive and like stated above, version 2.0 of NeXTSTEP or higher, you can read or write PC floppies no problem. Same goes for Macintosh floppies too.
Title: Floppies
Post by: mrintel on August 05, 2011, 08:29:23 AM
If you have a NeXT Computer, it will auto-mount. But if you have a "Beige Box", you'll have to tell it to "Check For Disks." I forget which menu it's under, but you do have to look for it in the Workspace Manager.

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