Re: PC TransPorter: What are its non-IBM uses?

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:

> When not in PC mode, the PCT acts as a 768k RAM card.

Not quite.  It has 768K of RAM, but some of it is used to hold the
firmware image that is downloaded to the card.  This leaves 752K for the
/RAMAEPC volume size, which is 1497 free blocks (748.5K) after the root
directory, etc. is accounted for.

> >Can it also be used as a db-19 disk drive controller?  Can it run one or
> >two platinum 3.5 800K drives on a IIe???
> 
> It sure can and more than that, it will let you read and write
> 720k DS/DD 3.5" MS-DOS disks using a regular platinum
> 3.5" 800k drive!

Only if you use it as a PC.  When used as an Apple II disk controller,
it only supports 800K disks in an Apple 3.5 Drive.  (Don't know about
400K support.)

> >Any other ordinary uses for it?
> 
> You can use the card to transfer files from Windows/DOS
> formatted disks to the Apple II.

You have to run it in PC mode to do this, and the user interface for the
transfer software is really really horrible.

It can also go the other way, of course.

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