Re: CopyIIPC Option Board - Apple disks on a PC

[richtw@cybernex.net (Richard T. Waters)]

On 3 Aug 1997 01:20:24 GMT, louiss@gate.net                   (Louis
Schulman) wrote:

>I just obtained, at very reasonable cost, a Central Point CopyIIPC Option
>Board.  It appears, from a review of the docs, that this card, when installed
>in a PC, WILL let the drives read and write Apple disks!  It is specifically
>set up for Macs, but certainly if it can handle Mac 400/800k disks (it says
>it can), it should be able to handle Apple II disks.
>
>Nathan, is this the rare piece of hardware that lets a PC use Apple disks?
>BTW, it uses the PC's own drives, and installs between the disk controller
>and the drives.  It supposedly can copy other formats, and disks with copy
>protection.
>
>Has anyone ever used this?  Was any software other than that provided by
>Central Point written for this card?  Is this the Holy Grail?
>
>Louis
I had one of these in an old PC, but I only used it for backing up IBM
PC disks.  The central point software was the only software I ever had
for it.