I guess I should have asked this before asking for a 5.25" floppy drive

Chuck Guzis cclist at sydex.com
Wed Mar 8 17:39:07 CST 2006


On 3/8/2006 at 3:06 PM William Blair wrote:

>Can Apple II disks be copied using a PC 5.25" drive and/or can downloaded
>images of Apple II system disks be written to a PC drive?  I'd suspect
that because of the
>unusual format of the Apple II floppies that special formatting/copying
software would be
>required to do this.  Does this software exist?

Not written with plain old PC hardware, unless you count the lash-up using
the PC parallel port.  The more conventional way to do this is with a
CopyIIPC option card, a Catweasel card or a MatchPoint card.  

Cheers,
Chuck







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