The disk drives sold with the Commodore 128, Amiga and Atari ST were all able to read and write PC disks, which themselves were undergoing the transition from 5.25" to 3.5" format at the time.

It could also access standard PC disks formatted to 180 KB or 360 KB, again using the first byte of the FAT to determine the capacity.

Macintoshes can read the data on PC floppy disks, but they can mangle longer names.

A. Even though the 5 1/4-inch floppy disk - the most common size for PC disks made before 1987 - has pretty much gone the way of the eight-track tape, it might still be possible to get your files back.

Q. Is it true that a Mac can read a PC floppy disk but a PC can't read a Mac disk?

The total data storage space of a PC hard disk can be divided into at most four primary partitions, or alternatively three primary partitions and an extended partition.

This utility enabled Macs to read PC disks, but only if they were inserted after launching Apple File Exchange.

Sun Solaris on Intel platforms uses a sub-partitioning scheme on PC hard disks similar to the BSD disklabels.

Can I assume the hard disk works like a PC hard disk and needs a periodic clean-up?

He doesn't need a machine or ten PC disks to be that.