Universal drive

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Thu Oct 1 20:32:20 1998

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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Received on Thu Oct 01 1998 - 20:32:20 BST

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