Re: Central point option board?

[Bart <pilgrimer@my-deja.com>]

In article <20001201203552.01918.00000521@ng-fk1.aol.com>,
  simm8mb@aol.com (SIMM8MB) wrote:
> I was looking throug a box of old parts today and I found what I
*think* is a
> Central Point Option Board. If I'm correct, this connects through the
PC's
> floppy controller so that 360k PC drives can read the 140k GCR disks.
Is this
> correct? Can anybody give me more information? Thanks.
>
> Justin

Yes Justin, it can.
I have a CP board on the 486 I use as a printserver, and have a regular
PC 1.4 and a 360k floppy drives hooked to it.  With the correct driver
Software (available on the web
http://www.ece.nwu.edu/~cbachman/apple.html )
Apple and other disks are possible, even 800k disks.  I have also
copied Osborne, Kapro, Mac and other esoterica on it.  When I was a
very new returnie to the Apple II world I had used my CP Board to
create some workable DOS disks (and some semi-workable ProDOS disks)
from a couple of unusable Franklin formated disks I had received with a
Ace 1200.  Little did I realize that TONS of old Apple stuff was
avaialable at my local Goodwill. But that's another tale ;)
-Bart


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