Re: Transferring A2 files to IBM

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <19961214194600.OAA02112@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
SWMORETP <swmoretp@aol.com> wrote:
>Is there an IBM shareware program that can convert Apple II files to IBM
>directly by accepting the Apple II disk then translating the file to IBM
>windows format?

   No. IBM PC and Apple II disk formats are different at a hardware
level.  Thus, theu require extra (rare) addon hardware for a disk to
be readable on the other type of machine. A list of such hardware is
available online at http://www.visi.com/~nathan/a2/faq/csa2.html, but
to my knowledge, no off the shelf PC has this functionality.

Nathan Mates

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