Re: Apple <--> PC

[dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <Pine.A32.3.93.960511211718.42602B-100000@freenet4.afn.org>,
Don 'X-caiver'  Pattee Jr  <afn40469@afn.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 11 May 1996, Tom Kelly wrote:
> Copy>In <Dr1t8I.9vu@tron.bwi.wec.com> you@somehost.somedomain (mike) writes:
> Copy>>I am a PC user and would like to be able to share programs/data
> Copy>>files with an Apple user.
> Copy>
> Copy>The disks are NOT compatable.
> Copy>To share data, transfer the files via null modem or post them to
> Copy>a BBS and download with the other computer.
> 
> Actually there are a bunch of programs that can be used to transfer files
> from PC to Apple disks, and back. Using a stnadard 3.5inch drive (You don`t
> even need a PCTransPorter card, or a SuperDrive or any of that stuff) you
> can read 720k PC formatted floppies.

You are mistaken.  The disk controller used in the Apple II is not
able to read MFM data.  The only situation in which an Apple 3.5 Drive
can read or write MFM disks is when it is connected to a PC
Transporter, and then only while running in PC mode.

There are some GS/OS and ProDOS-8 programs that can access MS-DOS
disks, but all of them require a disk drive which is physically able
to handle the disk, i.e. a SuperDrive connected to a SuperDrive card,
a PC 3.5" drive on a BlueDisk card, or a Floptical on a SCSI card
(probably also a 5.25" TransDrive on a PC Transproter).
-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz
Snail mail: P.O. Box 27-103, Wellington, New Zealand