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- Newsgroups: alt.emulators.ibmpc.apple2
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- From: iam@stiatl.salestech.com (Ian Mercado)
- Subject: Re: Does anyone know of...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.045841.28259@stiatl.salestech.com>
- Organization: Sales Technologies, Inc.
- References: <1992Dec19.172657.11534@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <BzJ3n0.7ss@darkside.osrhe.uoknor.edu> <2277@newsserver.cs.uwindsor.ca> <vera.724891828@fanaraaken.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 04:58:41 GMT
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- vera@fanaraaken.Stanford.EDU (James S. Vera) writes:
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- >gazo@server.uwindsor.ca (ozaG .S luaP) writes:
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- >> I just want to sleep at night, so if someone could actually say "it
- >>absolutely, due to technical difficulties, cannot be done", I would be able to
- >>stop thinking of nasty assembly routines to decrypt Apple disks...
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- >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.
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- What if you have one of those Copy II Deluxe Option boards installed?
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