Re: MS-DOS FST?

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article "Tom Zuchowski" <cd003508@interramp.com> writes...

>Sam Barjoud <samir@miami.mindspring.com> wrote in article
><53e6db$cgi@camel1.mindspring.com>...
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>> Is there a way for a IIGS to read MS-DOS formatted 3.5" 720K floppies?
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>The short answer is no, unless you are willing to invest in a
>PC-Transporter, which is basically a PC-AT on a card. With a PC-Transporter
>installed, you can connect a PC drive to the PCT and read it that way.

    The PC-Transporter is certainly not the only option. You can use
a SCSI card and floptical drive, a BlueDisk card and PC drive or an
Apple II 3.5 Disk Controller Card and SuperDrive. I've been able to
read 3.5" double-density (720K) MS-DOS disks with the latter option
on my system.

    Incidentally, the PC-Transporter is closer to an IBM XT. It's
CPU is a NEC-V30 processor, which is basically the same as the
8086 with a couple of 80186 instructions (but far from being a
real 186, let alone even a 286). It is also CGA with 640K, the
typical setup found an IBM XT. "AT" class implies an 80286 CPU.

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca