Re: Reading apple disks on PC

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Paul Schlyter wrote:

>In article <FTaRa.1576$KZ.854103@news1.news.adelphia.net>,
>Steven N. Hirsch <shirsch@adelphia.net> wrote:
> 
>> sean wrote:
>> 
>>> Paul Schlyter wrote:
>>> 
>>>> PC floppy drives have
>>>> never been able to read GCR disks and will never be.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Unless of course you are lucky enough to get your hands on an old 
>>> Central Point Copy II option board.
>> 
>> Hmm.  I have one of these.  However, I'm not aware that the support 
>> software lets you read files from, e.g. a IIgs 3.5" disk.  Wasn't it 
>> just intended for full-disk copying?
> 
>I think he meant the capability of the hardware and not necessarily
>the accompanying software.  You can always write your own software,
>but it's much harder to build your own hardware.... :-)

Considering that it would be necessary to write RWTS and a
pretty complete file system (or two) in x86 code, I think this
may be yet another case where the hardware is the easyware
and the software is the hardware.  ;-)

-michael

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