Re: A2 5.25" drive on a PC?

["sicklittlemonkey" <Nick.Westgate@gmail.com>]

> except in a "track-at-once mode" or something

This is pretty much enough to cover what people want from such a
device.

The all too frequent "How can I get my old Apple II disks onto a PC?"
and
occasionally the reverse. Anyone needing regular use of an Apple II
disk
with single sector writes could probably use either a real Apple II or
a disk
file with an emulator.

> That pretty much means you are making a microcomputer roughly as
> powerful as the Apple II+Woz machine in your dongle

As Patrick Schaefer posted, many microcontrollers would be more than
up to the task, even if a couple of extra chips would make it cheaper.

Moreover, we could grab better images (think .nib++) of protected disks
to preserve, rather than the cracked and hacked ones that abound.

Cheers,
Nick.