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Re: GCR <--CP/M --> MS-DOS and vice versa?

On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Tony Cianfaglione wrote:
|Could a common ground be found, using these formats, to read/write Apple
|II disks on a PC.  Since both computers can use CP/M, could software be
|written to convert MFM material to CP/M which is then written to a disk.
|The disk is then put in a II and read via software into something the II
|can understand from CP/M.  Material could be written to CP/M on teh II and
|put into a PC to translate form CP/M.
|
|Let me guess...there is GCR CP/M and MFM CP/M and neither the twain shall
|meet? :-(

Well, irrc, the Z80 cartridge for the old C-64 allowed you to write
"1541" style GCR.