On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Jason Simpson wrote:
> I've got one of these Central Point Copy II PC "Option Board"s in the
> basement.
> Does anybody know if it would be possible for a computer equipped with an
> Option Board to read and write disk images (even of raw GCR data, say) or
> does the Option Board require two drives and simply pass incoming data
> directly to the output drive without the computer seeing the data at all?
The HARDWARE could do it.
The option board came with 2 programs:
TC to copy disks
TE to display data and clock from disk tracks.
The later "deluxe" model added software for reading/writing Mac 400K/800K
disk formats.
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Fred Cisin cisin_at_xenosoft.com
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Berkeley, CA 94710-2219
Received on Thu Oct 01 1998 - 20:32:20 BST