Re: Reading 5.25" Pascal 1.3 on a Mac

[sheldon@atlcom.net (Sheldon Simms)]

In article <199701041633561296556@dempson.actrix.gen.nz>,
dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote:

> If the PC-compatible drive's controller used this chip (which
> might not have existed at the time) then it might have sufficient
> hardware to support the Apple II 5.25" drive and/or Apple II 5.25" disks
> in a PC-compatible drive.
> 
> It is more likely that Apple used a standard MFM disk controller chip
> and standard PC-compatible drive.

On top of all that, there's the little problem that the PC-compatible
drive I referred to was never a big seller, has not been in production
for a long time and is not likely to be easy to find.

-Sheldon

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