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Re: GCR <--CP/M --> MS-DOS and vice versa?



"Tony Cianfaglione" <ab616@chebucto.ns.ca> wrote in message
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> Could a common ground be found, using these formats, to read/write Apple
> II disks on a PC.  Since both computers can use CP/M, could software be
> written to convert MFM material to CP/M which is then written to a disk.
> The disk is then put in a II and read via software into something the II
> can understand from CP/M.  Material could be written to CP/M on teh II and
> put into a PC to translate form CP/M.
>
> Let me guess...there is GCR CP/M and MFM CP/M and neither the twain shall
> meet? :-(
>

If you have access to an Amiga500/1000 with the OCS chip set, the controller
will
read/write GCR or MFM disks with the appropriate disk drive attached.

They can be picked up fairly cheaply these days.

Red