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



In article <roG9a.32042$gh4.16368@fe08.atl2.webusenet.com>,
Michael Evenson <mevenson@nospam.adelphia.net> wrote:
>
>I think the point that is being missed here is this: The Apple II disk
>controller was really nothing more than a card to allow the software in the
>Apple II to turn the motor on/off, move the heads in/out and cause the
>read/write coils in the head to generate a magnetic field or detect a change
>in magnetic field.

No; you've simplified too much, and left out the state machine.



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