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- From: grover@emunix.emich.edu (Grover Thomas)
- Subject: Drive speeds (was Re: Does anyone know of...)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.161722.16046@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
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- Organization: Eastern Michigan University
- References: <BzJ3n0.7ss@darkside.osrhe.uoknor.edu> <2277@newsserver.cs.uwindsor.ca> <vera.724891828@fanaraaken.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 16:17:22 GMT
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- In article <vera.724891828@fanaraaken.Stanford.EDU> vera@fanaraaken.Stanford.EDU (James S. Vera) writes:
- >
- >I'm not absolutely sure, but I believe the problem is that Apple
- >drives are variable speed (spinning faster on the inner tracks) while
- >the PCs use constant speed drives. So its not physically possible for
- >the PCs to read the Apple diskettes.
-
- Apple II 800K disks (3.5") are variable speed (GCR encoding, etc..)
- so they are physically impossible to read on normal IBM equipment.
-
- But, the old 140K (5.25") disks, which most of the classic programs and
- games for early Apple IIs came on, had regular 300 rev/sec (single head)
- drives. I'd think it would be possible to read those on an IBM 5.25"
- drive.
-
- I'm not sure how exactly IBM drives store information, but any
- copy of the Copy II+ manual has fairly extensive descriptions of how
- information is put/read on an Apple II disk. 5x3 encoding, 6x2 en-
- coding, prologues, epilogues, etc....
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