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Re: Apple 3.5" drive questions



Eric Smith <eric-no-spam-for-me@brouhaha.com> wrote in
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> Are there other ways to accomplish this task?  Yes.  But they require
> use of hardware other than just a normal PC floppy controller.
> 
> If someone has some extra ingenuity and peristence that would
> otherwise go to waste (unlikely), I'd really recommend using it to
> solve some other problem rather than trying to make PC disk
> controllers speak GCR.

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.

-- Otter