Re: Central Point Copy II PC Option Board

[NoSpam@Prodigy.Net (Andy)]

On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 23:19:04 -0500, John Drake
<jamesbond007NOSPAM@mac.com> wrote:

>In article <3bf53450.5108778@NEWS.PRODIGY.NET>, Andy
><Nospamplease@dot.com> wrote:
>
>Hi Andy,
>
>Thanks for letting me know.
>
>I didn't realize until now - that there were 2 different products.
>
>So do you have the regular option board or the deluxe?
>
>Are there different chip sets?
>
>Thanks
>
>John
>
>
>> Hello John, the Copy II PC option board & Option board Deluxe were
>> designed to transfer Macintosh Files to a PC and to copy "protected"
>> IBM PC software.  I have not had any luck copying Apple II software
>> with it.  It does a great job on IBM PC software so I don't know if an
>> Option Board is what you need to copy Apple stuff.  As for the
>> Macintosh software, it does work but I have found software packages
>> that run on the IBM PC that transfer files with much greater
>> reliability without any additional hardware.    
>> 
>> >>> Andy

John, yes there are two different chipsets for the two boards.  The
original option board has "Transcopy 1986" and works well with 5.25"
360k disks and 3.5" 720k disks.  The other Deluxe board has "Transcopy
3" and is dated 1987.  It will copy 3.5" 1.44 disks and works with the
newer 5.4 software.  There are not many components on these boards and
I think the Transcopy chip is a programable disk controller chip as
the board goes between your disk drive and the disk drive motherboard
connector.  If you need the software, I downloaded it from Christopher
Bachmann's site at (http://www.ece.nwu.edu/~cbachman/apple.html)  The
software I mentioned to transfer Mac files from a PC to a Mac is
called "MacDrive 98" and works well.  I still run across a few copy
protected IBM 3.5" disks that make the Option boards useful to me but
not really for backing up Apple II software.  I "do" want to hang on
to the two I have as they are hard to come by now.
>>> Andy