Re: Is it possible...

["Bryan Parkoff" <nospam@nospam.com>]

"David Wilson" <mcs6502@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Frank Werner wrote:
>> ...to write on a 3,5 Inch Floppy with a PC that an Apple can read?
>
> Yes but...
>
> I do it all the time but my IIgs has a Superdrive card and an Apple
> 1.44MB 3.5" drive. I use Ciderpress on a PC to create a 1.44MB ProDOS
> disk.
>
> If you only have 800KB 3.5" drives on your Apple II then you are out of
> luck at present.
>
> I think a neat circuit would be a microcontroller with a USB interface
> driving a 3.5" drive in such a way that it can read/write/format 800KB
> GCR diskettes. If it reports itself as a USB mass storage class device
> then any USB aware PC operating system (Windows XP, Linux etc) would be
> able to read and write Apple II diskettes.
>

    So USB is not invented yet to work with GCR drives?

Bryan Parkoff