Re: Simulate Apple II Drive with PC port?

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Frank Carney <frankcNOSPAM@cyberhighway.net> wrote:

>Has anyone tried making a simulated Apple II drive using a PC parallel
>port?  Aren't all the pins on the Apple II drive interface TTL
>compatible?

Hi, David Empson answered this very question not long ago.  He
said that the parallel port lacks the critical timing necessary for
the Apple drive.  However, a Commodore drive would work.  In
fact, it is probably technically possible to use a Commodore drive
on an Apple II.

The Commodore 1571 drive can read 5.25" 360k MS-DOS disks.