Re: transfering

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Bryan Parkoff wrote:
> Michael,
>
>
> > DSK2FDI can be used on PCs with two floppy drives to capture the "front"
> > side of a normal 5.25" Apple disk without the need for an Apple II or
> > Apple disk drive.
>
>
>     Capture the "back" side of a normal 5.25" Apple disk is possible unless 
> you are very careful not todamage it.  Use knife to cut on the top of folded 
> tab.  Remove magentic disk out of protected plastic coverage.  Swap from 
> front to back.  Put it back into protected plastic coverage.  You can trick 
> PC floppy drive thinking that back magetic disk is truly front magentic 
> disk.  This way is to check the hole before it locates the beginning of 
> track 0.  It works as before.

Correct, but most people would consider this a destructive approach.

Since it only works for copyable disks in any event, it would be much
more reasonable just to copy the back of the disk to the front of a
"work" disk, then transfer that.

This approach, though, requires a working Apple II and drive.

-michael

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