[Gllug] The point in keeping all those old computers

[Matthew King]

Christian Smith <csmith at thewrongchristian.org.uk> writes:

> Don't 3 inch drives use the same 28 pin connector as 3.5 inch drives? Try 
> plugging the drive from the amstrad into a PC. The floppy controller of a 
> PC is probably sufficiently compatible to read the disk.

I seem to recall that the PC floppy controller is basically crap. It is
physically incapable of reading discs formatted for the Amiga, Acorn and
probably Apple.

In fact, last I checked Windows couldn't even reformat them.

Matthew

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