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Re: Reading Apple2 Disc on PC?

Subject: Re: Reading Apple2 Disc on PC?
From: david@wraith.cc.uow.edu.au (David E A Wilson)
Date: 1995/11/12
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage, comp.sys.apple2
Organization: University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia.
References: <ramjet-0611950825500001@ramjet.tor.hookup.net> <47r1tg$bee@tuegate.tue.nl>

michel@news.tue.nl (Michel Roelofs) writes:
>Dave Smith (ramjet@hookup.net) wrote:
>: Does anyone know of a program (ideally freeware or shareware) that lets me
>: read the data from an Apple2 disc onto a PC?

>As far is I know, it isn't possible to read Apple 2 disks on a pc. It has
>something to do with softsectoring etc.

Apple ][ 5.25" and Apple/Mac 800KB 3.5" disks are recorded using GCR (group
code recording) and cannot be read using a PC disk controller (which uses
MFM [modified frequency modulation]).

Apple/Mac 1.44MB 3.5" disks are MFM and so the data can be read on a PC.
I do not know the name of the software required to do this.
-- 
David Wilson	Dept CompSci Uni Wollongong Australia	david@cs.uow.edu.au

References:
- Reading Apple2 Disc on PC?
  - From: ramjet@hookup.net (Dave Smith)
- Re: Reading Apple2 Disc on PC?
  - From: michel@news.tue.nl (Michel Roelofs)

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