On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, ben franchuk wrote:
> Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
>
> > Wow. This is truly cool. I'm going to have to play with it as soon as
> > some free time presents itself.
> >
> > If it works as reliably as it seems then this would surely qualify as the
> > Hack of the Year.
> >
>
> So why can't one just get a APPLE II?
One can. But one would rather read Apple ][ disks directly on a PC
depending on what one is wanting to do.
> Anyhow did not somebody make a pc controler that could read differnent
> floppy formats. This was not a PC card but a mother board floppy
> controler chip. ( Now not made of course )
Yes, but a) it costs money and b) last I checked there was no high level
software for it.
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Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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Received on Mon Dec 22 2003 - 13:29:11 GMT