Re: Copy II PC Option Board on eBay

[Knut Roll-Lund <kr-lund@nogarbage.online.no>]

pitz wrote:
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180145861214
>
> Has anybody had experience with this board?  How does it attach?  I was 
> watching the auction, but the price just shot out of my price range. 
> It's getting as expensive as the 3.5 Controller Card.

from one of the TRS-80 yahoo groups (mailiglist)

Knut Roll-Lund wrote:
> shadow@shadowgard.com wrote:
>> On 3 Aug 2007 at 1:38, Knut Roll-Lund wrote:
>>>      I consider us lucky that it can be done at all. I have
>>> several machines that do write succesfully to TRS-80 disks
>>> and one that can even format but I'm using the later less
>>> troublesome DOSs and I use double density. I also do Apple
>>> 2 and there is no way anything modern or 15 years old can
>>> write Apple2 disks.
>>>
>>
>>
>> If you have a machine that's old enough to have ISA slots,
>> there *is* a way. I have to dig mine out of storage and stick
>> it into an old 486 system, but the CopyIIPC Deluxe Option board
>> will let you read and write *anything*. Including Apple &
>> Commodore CGR formatted floppies.
>>
> I didn't think they could write Apple2 disks, only read them
> but I might be mistaking. Those CopyIIPC cards are hard to come
> by, I think. They were very expensive back then. Actually it
> isn't that much of hassle with tools like ADT when you have an
> SSC on an Apple2 (AppleDiskTransfer and SuperSerialCard for
> those that aren't familiar with Apple2).

Does CGR...

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