Re: A "NEW" old AppleII/e User with lots of questions ...

[nparker@cie-2.uoregon.edu (Neil Parker)]

In article <32915468.32D9@primenet.com> "Charles P. Hobbs"
<transit@primenet.com> writes:
>[...]
>There were also Apple II cards for PC (Quadram?) as well as PC cards
>for Apple II's (Applied Engineering?); these *might* have allowed 
>cross-platform disk access, although I am not positive.

I have a Quadram Quadlink board in my old XT clone.  It does indeed offer
cross-platform disk access, with some limitations--it only works with 360K
drives, and not all 360K drives work with it (it seems to prefer older
drives).

The Quadlink board is actually a 64K Apple II Plus on a card.  It includes
hardware that emulates the Apple II disk drive controller, and it plugs
directly into the disk drive ribbon cable.

It is, I believe, the oldest Apple II compatibility card for the PC.  Newer
cards (the name "Trackstar" comes to mind) might not have the 360K drive
limitation, or some of the Quadlink's other annoying limitations (such as
requiring an 8-bit slot, and only knowing about monochrome and CGA video).

               - Neil Parker
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