Re: Q: can PC write IIc disks?

[nathan@parka.winternet.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <31c28ef5.280755652@news.scruznet.com>,
john r pierce <pierce@scruznet.com> wrote:
>I just found out my wife's younger sister was given a operational
>Apple IIc...  What sort of disk does this use?  

   5.25" double density.

>Is there any way to create/read/write disks for a IIc on my PC ?  I
>seem to remember that the original apple II used a completly different
>format (hard sectored? 100kB or so?)

   You're right about completely different schemes, but that's in the
way the data is written to the disk. Short answer: without specialized,
addon hardware on one or both sides, forget it.

Nathan Mates
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