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Re: Hardware musings

Charlie wrote:

> The registered version of Disk2FDI does not need 2 floppy drives to create 
> an FDI.  It does require a simple 2 wire cable connected to a fast parallel 
> port. Many motherboard parallel ports are not fast enough, PCI parallel port 
> cards usually are.

Yeah, I forgot about that.

> The real show-stopper with the PC drives is that they can't read the back 
> side of most Apple II floppies even when flipped.

I wonder why one can't simply read them "backwards", i.e. without
flipping, then reversing things in software?

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Linards Ticmanis