reading apple ii disks with PCs: it WORKS !!!

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Mon Jan 5 17:15:15 2004

On Jan 5, 15:02, Gene Buckle wrote:
> Me, I want to know how they make an FM/MFM drive read a GCR disk...

It's not a drive issue, it's a controller issue. The bits on the disk
are just bits on a disk... just alternating magnetic poles. There's
nothing strange or different about the heads or amplifiers on an Apple,
Commodore, or Amiga drive.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York

Received on Mon Jan 05 2004 - 17:15:15 GMT