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Re: Disk II 70 Tracks



"GarberStreet Enterprises" <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote in message news:<EMmcnbQnYZ7_vMqjXTWcog@comcast.com>...
> Bryan Parkoff <BParkoff@satx.rr.com> wrote in message
> 0hucnbO28tTum8qjXTWQkQ@giganews.com">news:0hucnbO28tTum8qjXTWQkQ@giganews.com...
> >     Do you want to develop software that will convert all 5.25" drives
>  like
> > DOS 3.3 into 3.5" drives.  3.5" drives have an ability to read only 140KB.
> > It might work with copy-protected on 3.5" drives.  It causes Apple II
>  family
> > thinking to read 5.25" images from 3.5" drives!  It will give slot 6 free
> > for additional cards.
> >
> > --
> > Yours Truly,
> >
> > Bryan Parkoff
> Now there's a thought, let's use Oz-Dos. That let's you run
> 5.25 disk images from a 3.5" drive. The software is already
> in existance. Thanks Bryan.
> 
> Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprises
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Or for that matter you could use UniDOS - it even works on Dapple
Megadisks.  (But only at 800K, unfortunately - anyone know how DOS 3.x
can be tweaked to support 1.40 MB with 4 360K images, instead of 800K
with 2 400K images?)

-uso.