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Stephen, Robert is correct, the Apple Macintosh will only read 1.44 MS-DOS formatted diskettes. The reason is probably something to do with the disk encoding schemes used (MFM, GCR etc) which is usually hardware based. (However this is not true of Amiga drives which are dumb drives capable of doing GCR and MFM) Anyway, the Amiga will not read Mac Disks without extra hardware and PC disks without extra software (CrossDOS/MessyDOS). Macs will read 1.44 PC disks with s/ware, PC's can read 1.44 Mac disks with s/ware, but it's a mystery whether either could be coaxed to read Amiga disks with s/ware (I'll guess we'll never know…) Hope this is helpful Steve Gardiner – Sipping afternoon tea in London