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Re: Conversion apple2 to PC



Maindec Computer Engineering <maindec@mcebrstl.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> They are stored on a number of 5.25 floppy drives along with various
> data disks.
> 
> Does anyone know of a program for an IBM PC that will enable us to at
> least read the Apple disk on an 1.2MB PC Drive.
As the Apple disk format is in GCR encoding and the IBM PC disks are in
MFM encoding, I don't think that software alone will help any. As I
understand the technique, the controllers of these two formats are
incompatible with each other... (to state it simple...)

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