Macintosh Performa 600 for making 800k floppies

[altayd9]

I am trying to find a Mac newer than my Macintosh plus to burn 800k floppies for it and there is a Performa 600 without a CD drive for sale in my area at a good price and I'm wondering if it has the capability to read both 1.44mb floppies created with Windows and to actually burn in 800k format.

 

[blusnowkitty]

If it shipped with a 1.44MB floppy drive (looks like it did) then you'll have no issues writing 800k disks. Reading PC formatted disks depends on if you have the PC Exchange extension loaded.

 

[jessenator]

The poor man's way of writing Macintosh 800k floppies (if you lack OEM 800k disk blanks) is putting a piece of tape over the non-write-protect hole (one without the switch) of a 1.44 MB disk.

Any Old World ROM Macintosh can write and read 800k floppies AFAIK. Everything from the SE Superdrive till the last beige Power Macintosh G3 (pre-blue-and-white G3 towers), i.e. any Macintosh with a native floppy disk drive.

Really the exceptions are USB-based floppy drives, which can only read/write Macintosh 1.44 MB floppies (and DOS floppies w/ PC exchange)