Universal drive

From: Karl Maftoum <karlm_at_blitzen.canberra.edu.au>
Date: Fri Oct 2 22:09:26 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.

This is one of those things that would be good if it was
reverse-engineered, would Symantec be pursuaded to release the specs or
allow reverse-engineering? If it were possible to get the specs, you could
copy just about anything with one of these, I've had no reliability
problems with copying mac disks on a 386 with one of these cards, i don't
think they take to newer machines that well tho.

Cheers
Karl

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Karl Maftoum
Computer Engineering student at the University of Canberra, Australia

Email: k.maftoum_at_student.canberra.edu.au
Received on Fri Oct 02 1998 - 22:09:26 BST