Re: ProDOS diskreader for PC?

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ChemSleuth@earthlink.net (Dennis Doms) wrote:

>possibility...]
>
>If it's a 5.25" disk, you're pretty much stuck with finding an Apple
>II and using the serial transfer method (or moving it to a 3.5, then
>to the Mac) or finding an Apple II hardware emulator for your host
>computer (e.g. a TrakStar for a PC or an Apple IIe Card for a Mac LC)
>that includes an Apple II drive. The GCR recording method used by the
>Apple II 5.25 is incompatible with PC drives (the double-density 800K
>3.5 format is also incompatible with PC drives, but the Mac 800K and
>"SuperDrive" 3.5 drives can handle it, and the SuperDrive can also
>read and write common PC 3.5 disk formats).

Don't forget the SuperDrive on the IIe method.  With a SuperDrive
controller, the IIe can use a SuperDrive.  There is an MS-DOS
program on ground called ProCopy that can read 1.44MB high
density ProDOS disks created on a IIe with a SuperDrive.

1.44MB ProDOS format is MFM, not GCR, so the PC 3.5" drive
can handle it...