On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Hans Franke wrote:
I won't go
into my opinion of the reliability of the Turnover. (Nor the
mediocre software)
:)) We had this already. I was satisfied when I got my hands
on
a turnover, back when the A2 was still my main machine and I had
to do some (turbo Pascal) programming for clients using IBM-PCs.
For obvious reasons (check the copyright on the title page!), I'm not very
impressed with the Turnover. It was NOT my finest work.
I was rather thinking about either using a 3 1/2 drive
on an A2
to write GSOS disks (readable with older Macs), or better, using
an LC with the IIe card, and a 5 1/4 drive connected. From there
on it's a childs play to copy any A2/3 disk to the Mac side, and
from there onto the net or at least PC 3 1/2s.
The problem is/was more than just Apple ][. There are a LOT of other
formats that can be done with PC hardware, and there are c9ommercially
availabel hardware mods for many others.
The PC
hardware is so crude and simple that even with MY soldering skills,
it is possible to do mods such as for single density. The Mac hardware is
much more integrated, and is full of surface mout chips, etc. that I'm not
skilled enough to work with.
only the newer ones. I don't know if he said
anything about new
Macs. And, beside that, actual PCs are as 'solderning friendly'
as any Mac.
Which Macs have the floppy disk controller on a separate/replaceable
board?