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

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Tue Jan 6 02:12:43 2004

On Jan 5, 19:43, Gene Buckle wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> :r/drive/controller/

Not sure what you mean... I meant exactly what I wrote. Ah, did you
mean that you meant "controller" instead of drive? Then you need to
read the docs that accompany the software :-)

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York
Received on Tue Jan 06 2004 - 02:12:43 GMT

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