Re: Apple transfer to W95 PC

[Jonathan Schattke <wizwom@ripco.com>]

Philip Neff wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the information but I have a problem a little similar to this
> one.  I have some 51/4 inch floppys with Apple works files created on an
> apple IIe a long time ago.  I now have a new IBM pc with windows 98.  I do
> not have an Apple IIe machine now.  How do I get these old files to work on
> my IBM?  Do you know of a place I can send these 51/4 floopys to have them
> made so I can view them on my IBM?  Thank you very much for any information
> you can give me.

Well, there are a couple of places that make controller cards that can
do the low-level programmer I/O that is needed to read and write an
Apple ][ floppy on a PC 5-1/4 drive. 

As far as I can tell from looking at the schematics and data sheets for
the parts used in the PC floppy controller, it's not possible to read a
disk low-level - the drive's data stream is behind the u765 floppy
controller, and the bits are assembled into bytes in hardware, not
software.

The other direction seems more likely: it should be fairly simple to
read and write 35 tracks of a 160k PC disk on an Apple ][.  Has anybody
tried that yet?

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