Re: Apple 3.5" drive questions

[Matthew Montchalin <mmontcha@OregonVOS.net>]

On 7 Mar 2003, Michael J. Mahon wrote:
|>Scarlet Otter <SecretaryBird@MYTAILFEATHERSSoftHome.net> writes:
|>> Is there a possibility that Apple II disks could be read from and written
|>> to on a Commodore VIC-20, 64, or 128?  I _think_ that both the
|>> Commodore 1571 (5.25" Double-sided) and 1581 (3.5") disk drives can do both
|>
|>> GCR and MFM.
|>
|>Not really.  They do Commodore GCR, which is not the same as Apple GCR.
|
|However, the Commodore drives are programmable, so there may be
|hope for a real hacker.  ;-)

But the rotational speed of the drive is not user selectable, even if
the "width" of a bit (as read or written) is variable according to bit
density.