Re: IIe, IIgs, Mac LC-II hardware compatibility questions.

[Matt Jenkins <mdj@bilby.cs.rmit.edu.au>]

Charlie <charlied@nospambboard.com> wrote:

> My Apple 3.5 Drive connected to my "PC Transporter" (in my IIgs) boots disks
> with no problem.  It is slower than it would be if connected directly to the
> smartport (about the same as using a disk  that was formatted with 4:1
> interleaving) but it does have the HUGE advantage that it will read and
> write PC disks (720 kbyte variety) as well as Apple II disks.

Yeah - works out about the same speed as the UniDisk 3.5" which
incidentally uses the same interleave. It's certainly slower, but hey,
the Apple 3.5" isn't really that quick anyway compared to a HD, so the
extra flexibilty of reading MFM is worth the sacrifice.

To me the PC Transporter is basically the ulimate multifunction card. You
get smartport for 3.5", 768k slinky, and 5.25" MFM.

The way I saw it, running PC software was the nifty bonus feature, not the
other way around :)

Cheers,

Matt

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