looking for: Option Board, Trackstar, Turnover Card or similars

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Sat Dec 20 16:16:42 2003

On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Fred Cisin wrote:

> On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, [iso-8859-1] Silvio Finotti wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I would like to read/write apple II disks directly
> > from my PC. Searching the web I read about the
> > following hardware cards for PC:
> > -Option Boards (made by CentralPoint);
>
> You need the "DELUXE" Option Board.

Fred, to my knowledge either version of the Option Board will do
no more than extract a pure binary copy of the disk and present
that in hex form. No translation into text or other. Have I
missed something?

                                                - don

> Or consider the Catweasel as an alternative.
> Are you ready and willing to write your own software for the task?
>
> > -Apple Turnover card;
> Out of business, never worked very well. SOMEWHERE, I have several crates
> of DEAD ones.
>
> > -Trackstar card;
> The Trackstar 128 and the Quadlink were entire Apple][ clones on a
> PC ISA card. Do they have software for file transfer?
> (NOTE: on a sample size of ~50, we had >75% DOA rate on the Quadlink.
> We received several that had connectors misinstalled, that could not have
> ever been tested. We had a comparable DOA rate on the replacement units,
> indicating that they never did ANY QA.)
>
> > Anyone knows where can I find one of those cards ??
> > Any other "DIY" solution would be apreciated too...
>
> The cheapest and most versatile device for the task is a used Apple.
>
> --
> Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin_at_xenosoft.com
>
Received on Sat Dec 20 2003 - 16:16:42 GMT