• aeronmelon@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    You tie them to the desk and withhold food and water until they reformat an entire box of Mac floppies for use in Windows.

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      9 months ago

      Fuckin’ dumbfuck 3rd grade teacher having us all do class assignments in a lab full of Macs, saving our work on Mac formatted disks, and then expecting us to also work on it at home on our parent’s Compaqs/IBMs.

      Sorry, just had a core memory unlocked.

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      9 months ago

      Wait… I could use Mac floppies in windows since, 95, I think? Maybe even back in Win3.1 days, IIRC (I seem to recall seeing the “. Resource Fork” folder back then). But my memory is fuzzy.

      I think you had to reformat to make them Bootable though?

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        9 months ago

        Not in the 3.1 or 95 days if I recall correctly. That wasn’t fully unlocked until windows 98.

        Around 2002-3 Mac dropped support for floppies even on machines with a floppy drive installed.

        Which led to some pretty fun times when I needed to transfer files from a non-networked stand alone apple machine that my idiot coworker had upgraded the OS on without checking the specs.