Universal drive

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Thu Oct 1 20:02:16 1998

On Oct 1, 17:08, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
> Subject: Re: Universal drive
> ::
> ::Is there a device that would allow _any_ disk, independently of
> ::format, including Apple ][ disks, to be read? I know Teledisk can do
> ::this for all conventional formats, but not Apple disks. It would be
> ::nice to connect one of these and read the disk image into a file.
> ::The main reason why I ask is for rescuing messed up floppies...
> ::
>
> The closest thing to this I can think of would be a Catweasel controller,
> but they are not for the faint of heart or ignorant of disk format. They
> are also rather difficult to find. Try searching on AltaVista; you may
> luck out and find one for sale. At least in the Commodore world, we've
been
> successful at reading 64 disks on a PC with a Catweasal-enhanced drive.

I know someone at Edinburgh who was trying to persuade a Catweasel
controller to read/write unusual formats, but last I heard he was making
heavy weather of it. Here's the Catweasel URL:

    http://members.tripod.com/~apd2/catweasl.htm


-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York
Received on Thu Oct 01 1998 - 20:02:16 BST

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