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Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Desktop Hardware
Performa 5260 800k floppy
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<blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 1809704" data-attributes="member: 46727"><p>Welcome to our forums!</p><p></p><p>Someone with more knowledge of older Macs will have to answer your question. However, 1.44MB floppy drives that were installed on older PCs could only read 1.44MB and 720K floppies. When IBM came out with their special 2.88MB floppies it required a new drive designed for that format in order to read those super high density floppy disks.</p><p></p><p>I suspect you would need a special floppy drive designed to read and write to those 800K floppies.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chscag, post: 1809704, member: 46727"] Welcome to our forums! Someone with more knowledge of older Macs will have to answer your question. However, 1.44MB floppy drives that were installed on older PCs could only read 1.44MB and 720K floppies. When IBM came out with their special 2.88MB floppies it required a new drive designed for that format in order to read those super high density floppy disks. I suspect you would need a special floppy drive designed to read and write to those 800K floppies. [/QUOTE]
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