On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Scott Walde wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Kai Kaltenbach wrote:
>
> > There is no way to read Apple II disks in a PC. Your options are:
> [snip]
> and...
>
> 4. Wasn't there something called a Central Point Option Card (or something
> like that?) that allowed a person to install an Apple drive in a PC?
>
> ttyl
> srw
Only in part, unfortunately. The CP Deluxe Option Card and associated
software permitted copying an Apple disk or saving an 'image' to file.
However, the contents of the disk were just as inscrutable with the card
as without.
MicroSolutions, on the other hand, made a card that they called
MatchPoint which, with its associated software, permitted reading and
writing Apple disks on a standard PC drive.
Both cards were used as a bridge card between the FDC and the drive.
Regrettably, neither card is in production now and the MicroSolutions
card was never plentiful.
- don
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Received on Thu Mar 19 1998 - 00:40:27 GMT