Re: PCT, low-density disks, and Apple 3.5 drives

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <3324bd88.207353843@netnews.worldnet.att.net>,
Bruce Maples <themaples@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>If PC disks are MFM, and Apple disks are GCR, then how does the PC
>Transporter use an Apple 3.5 drive to read and write low-density
>(720k) disks?

   The solution has always been the (rare) addon hardware of a new
floppy disk controller, one that speaks both MFM and GCR.  You plug
your Apple 3.5" drives into the PC Transporter, it can talk to them.

>And, if the Apple 3.5 can be used to read PC 720k disks, would it be
>possible to write a utility on the PC to write 800k ProDOS disks?  Why
>or why not?

   You'd need to build some hardware first. That's been the story
from the beginning. 

Nathan Mates
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