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Re: Apple 3.5" drive questions
Eric Smith <eric-no-spam-for-me@brouhaha.com> wrote in
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> Are there other ways to accomplish this task? Yes. But they require
> use of hardware other than just a normal PC floppy controller.
>
> If someone has some extra ingenuity and peristence that would
> otherwise go to waste (unlikely), I'd really recommend using it to
> solve some other problem rather than trying to make PC disk
> controllers speak GCR.
Is there a possibility that Apple II disks could be read from and written
to on a Commodore VIC-20, 64, or 128? I _think_ that both the
Commodore 1571 (5.25" Double-sided) and 1581 (3.5") disk drives can do both
GCR and MFM.
-- Otter