Reading various format 5.25" floppies on a PC

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Mon Jun 16 17:06:00 2003

On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Hans Franke wrote:
> > I won't go into my opinion of the reliability of the Turnover. (Nor the
> > mediocre software)
> :)) We had this already. I was satisfied when I got my hands on
> a turnover, back when the A2 was still my main machine and I had
> to do some (turbo Pascal) programming for clients using IBM-PCs.

For obvious reasons (check the copyright on the title page!), I'm not very
impressed with the Turnover. It was NOT my finest work.

> I was rather thinking about either using a 3 1/2 drive on an A2
> to write GSOS disks (readable with older Macs), or better, using
> an LC with the IIe card, and a 5 1/4 drive connected. From there
> on it's a childs play to copy any A2/3 disk to the Mac side, and
> from there onto the net or at least PC 3 1/2s.

The problem is/was more than just Apple ][. There are a LOT of other
formats that can be done with PC hardware, and there are c9ommercially
availabel hardware mods for many others.

> > The PC hardware is so crude and simple that even with MY soldering skills,
> > it is possible to do mods such as for single density. The Mac hardware is
> > much more integrated, and is full of surface mout chips, etc. that I'm not
> > skilled enough to work with.
> only the newer ones. I don't know if he said anything about new
> Macs. And, beside that, actual PCs are as 'solderning friendly'
> as any Mac.

Which Macs have the floppy disk controller on a separate/replaceable
board?
Received on Mon Jun 16 2003 - 17:06:00 BST