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- From: dsdd@okcforum.osrhe.uoknor.edu (Roy Barrett)
- Subject: Re: Reading Apple disks in IBM drive (was Re: Does anyone know of...)
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:16:51 GMT
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- Francois Dion (dionf@ERE.UMontreal.CA) wrote:
- : OK now listen everybody. An IBM controller can be programmed to read
- : pretty much anything. On IBM 3.5" you can read apple 1.4 and 800K,
- : ensoniq, amiga, atari, akai, sinclair (and probably a lot more). Programs
- : exist for all these. On 1.2M you can read GCR or MFM. Varying speed is not
- : a problem, you just change the gap for each track. You also need to know
- : the number of sectors/track. Then you of course need to align yourself.
- : You'll also need to synch your code depending how low level you need to
- : go to read correctly.
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- You're full of shit. For one thing, you can't read all those disks with a
- cheap-ass IBM MFM drive, or else, II users everywhere would have $50 drives
- instead of $400 drives. You don't know what you're talking about, and a
- Timex/Sinclair doesn't even HAVE a 3.5" Drive... (does it?)
-
- Ensoniq? Akai? Are you talking about Musical Keyboards? If so, I'm lost, but
- if you're talking about the Ensoniq 5503 Chip, I'd just as well assume you're
- some dumb snot-nose elementary kid that owns an overpaid IBM and thinks it's
- better than anything in the world because his daddy said so.
-
- No offense, dude.... This is an alt.* group, what do you expect?
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