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Subject: Re: New IIgs owner.
From: mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)
Date: 17 Dec 2001 19:02:52 GMT
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Jeff Blakeney 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.

It was the ROM part that I expected precluded radical disk format
changes.  I'd be very interested in the methodology to read/write(?)
Apple disks.

-michael

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