8 Oct
2005
8 Oct
'05
9:46 a.m.
On Sat, 8 Oct 2005, Chuck Guzis wrote:
22Disk does not handle them. Internally here, we use
an early
Microsolutions Match Point card in an old PC XT with a special version
of Uniform to handle Apple II CP/M transfers. The Match Point also
comes with some tools to handle Apple DOS. The MP will not work in
anything much faster than an XT. I believe that there was another
product called "Blue Lightning" or some such to handle those diskettes,
but I've never run into one.
I had a board called "Blue Lightning", which was a Z80 board for PC.
Did the Quadlink and/or Trackstar 128 cable to Apple drives?
I did the filesystem software for "Apple Turnover" from Vertex.
I handled Apple-DOS, Pro-DOs, Apple][ CP/M, and Apple][ Pascal disks.
There are few, if any WORKING instances of that hardware.
(and it wasn't very happy about TEAC drives!)
If you're looking for a good no-nonsense book on
the innards of the IIe,
try to find Jim Sather's book "Understanding the Apple IIe" (Quality
Software). Long OOP, it's one of the better references.
and "Beneath Apple DOS" has a reasonable beginner's explanation of GCR