Re: Remote Virtual Disk Drive Emulator

["RedskullDC" <RDC@oz.org>]

"Great Hierophant" <great_hierophant@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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> I'm not sure that the subject is the right label for the concept I am
> asking about.  What I want to do is the following:
>
> I want to use a real Apple II with disk programs but without the disks
> themselves.  All those disk images on a PC are difficult enough to copy
> back onto disks, some like the .nib images are close to impossible.
> However, isn't it possible to have the PC emulate an Apple II disk
> drive and send a cable from the PC to the disk controller in slot #6?
> After all, the Disk II is something of a dumb device, it just reads
> when it gets the signal and writes when it gets another signal.  That
> way an Apple II can run disk images ff a PC as if it were running the
> disks themselves.  Even better, the disk can become a lot faster,
> eliminating load times unless they are truly necessary.
>
> Feasible?
>
> GH
>

You mean something like this:
http://www.rothfus.com/SVD/  ?

Author says he is working on Apple 2 support for the device.

Red