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Re: New IIgs owner.

Subject: Re: New IIgs owner.
From: "Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 10:05:44 -0800
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Organization: Silicon Valley North, Inc. (http://www.svn.net)
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Jeff Blakeney <CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca> wrote
>
> The Commodore 1541 drive is an "intelligent" drive in that it has a
> processor, ROM and RAM in it.  Because of this, I'm pretty sure I
> remember hearing that you could send code to the drive to allow you to
> read/write Apple II format disks.
>

Now that's interesting. Those drives are quite common, and can be accessed
from a PC with a custom printer-port-to-floppy-drive cable. This would be a
cheap way to create Apple II disks using a PC.

-Paul

References:
- Re: New IIgs owner.
  - From: Alex Eisenhut <eisenhut@technologist.com>
- Re: New IIgs owner.
  - From: mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)
- Re: New IIgs owner.
  - From: CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca (Jeff Blakeney)

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