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Re: FS: Deluxe Option Board,Central Point
- Subject: Re: FS: Deluxe Option Board,Central Point
- From: mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)
- Date: 07 Jan 2004 22:57:39 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com
- References: <3FFC650F.10805@apple2.com>
- Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.sys.apple2:2324
Ed Eastman wrote:
<snip>
>* Due to physical differences in the side 2 hardware on a floppy drive
>in a PC, you can not duplicate the flip side of an Apple II/Commodore
>5.25" diskette at the same time as the main side, you'll need to flip it
>over and copy the flip side again onto a different diskette. (The PC
>drive writes both sides at once and garbages the flip side of the
>destination diskette.)
There is problem even with reading if the disk does not have two
index hole cutouts in the jacket. The PC drive will not even recognize
that a disk is inserted and turning without pulses from the index hole.
-michael
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