Reading various format 5.25" floppies on a PC

From: Hans Franke <Hans.Franke_at_mch20.sbs.de>
Date: Mon Jun 16 13:51:01 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.

Except you use a Turnover in a real PC/XT.

> > (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.

Depends.

Gruss
H.

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