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Re: cbm 1541 drive reading AppleIIe 5.25" disks?

To: phillips@swanee.ee.uwa.edu.au
Subject: Re: cbm 1541 drive reading AppleIIe 5.25" disks?
From: eric@telebit.com (Eric Smith)
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1993 00:59:25 GMT
In-reply-to: phillips@swanee.ee.uwa.edu.au's message of 4 Jun 93 06:50:42 GMT
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>>On 4 Jun 93 06:50:42 GMT, phillips@swanee.ee.uwa.edu.au (Christopher Phillips) said:
> Now, both
> the apple II drive and the 1541 drive both use gcr, so
> this should be really easy to write, if one could get hold
> of the specs for apple II 5.25"s.

No such luck.  GCR isn't a specific code, it is a whole family of codes.
The Commodore disk hardware is much different than the Disk II, and I don't
think there is any way that either can read the other's disks.

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