Reading various format 5.25" floppies on a PC

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Mon Jun 16 13:45:00 2003

On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, [iso-8859-1] Jules Richardson wrote:
> I'm not even going to think about the Amiga and Mac 3.5" disks for now; I know
> the PC controller won't handle those - and all the stuff on cassette tape can
> wait too! :-)
> . . .
> Acorn BBC / BBC Master / Cambridge Workstation (I believe these are all the
> same low-level format even if filesystem structure is different)
> Apple (Apple ][, //e and /// - again I believe low-level structure is the
> same for all 3?)

The PC controller won't handle those either.

> (the couple of Macs I do have might be a better bet for this job, but

No, it is a lot easier to modify the disk controller hardware on a PC than
on a Mac.
Received on Mon Jun 16 2003 - 13:45:00 BST

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