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Re: any idea to use apple 2 floppy on a PC



In article <34B9EB26.3883@cipcinsa.insa-lyon.fr>,
 <bcombes@cipcinsa.insa-lyon.fr> wrote:
>I've got a 5"1/4 drive and I want to use my apple 2 disks with an
>emulator. Any idea ?

    You're gonna need (rare) addon hardware to bridge this gap; the
two disk formats are different at the hardware level, and nothing but
that is gonna change things. Since a real Apple II can read its own
disks just fine, ditch the fake one.

Nathan Mates

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