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- From: dionf@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Francois Dion)
- Subject: Re: Reading Apple disks in IBM drive (was Re: Does anyone know of...)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.224400.17547@cc.umontreal.ca>
- Sender: news@cc.umontreal.ca (Administration de Cnews)
- Organization: Universite de Montreal
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 22:44:00 GMT
- Lines: 53
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- In article <Bzo803.22t@darkside.osrhe.uoknor.edu> dsdd@okcforum.osrhe.uoknor.edu (Roy Barrett) writes:
- >Francois Dion (dionf@ERE.UMontreal.CA) wrote:
- >: 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
- >You're full of shit. For one thing, you can't read all those disks with a
-
- Listen little boy, watch your language. I have been helping users around the
- Internet since 1988, and have never been wrong. I have been several times
- misunderstood, tough...
-
- >cheap-ass IBM MFM drive, or else, II users everywhere would have $50 drives
-
- As you know most controllers are MFM/FM.
-
- >instead of $400 drives.
-
- It has nothing to do... The apple II controller is not compatible with
- IBM floppies, but it has nothing to do with the subject. We are talking
- about FDC chips. Get your facts straight.
-
- > You don't know what you're talking about, and a
- >Timex/Sinclair doesn't even HAVE a 3.5" Drive... (does it?)
-
- WHERE DID I SAY TIMEX/SINCLAIR??? i said sinclair, a portable computer
- based on the motorola 68000. They had 3.5" floppies.
-
- >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.
-
- FYI, i have 2 macs, several IBMs (from XT to 386-33), 1 apple iie (i also had
- a ii+ and lots of collectionnable items like PDP, DEC (even a COCO).
- And yes my latest IBM was a bit overpaid because i had to buy it from a
- University Coop in 1989 (the 386-33). The same thing applies for the Apple II
- and Macs. As for keyboards, you can come anytime to Montreal and i'll show
- you that i can read my Ensoniq EPS16+ with my IBM.
- I'm also looking at Oberheim and
- Emulator II floppies to be read by the IBM.
-
- (And my daddy as you put it prefers Macintosh to IBMs...)
-
- >No offense, dude.... This is an alt.* group, what do you expect?
-
- Respect. Ask first, then flame. Not the contrary.
-
- --
- Francois Dion
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