Apple disk -> MSDOS

--- "Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" &lt;cisin(a)xenosoft.com&gt; wrote: An XE1541 cable is an easy enough item to build. If you have a 4040 or 2031 drive on your PET, you could hook a 1541 to the PC, the IEEE drive to the PET and sneaker-net stuff over. Marko Makela has a cool device that's about to hit the world - a cassette port dongle for all CBM machines that speaks to a "modern" machine over serial - you save to "cassette" from your PET, B500, C64, VIC-20, whatever, and run a virtual server on a serial line on a modern machine to scoop up the data. No funny software required on the CBM side. He has a prototype and pictures, but it's not quite available yet. I know there have been some projects to emulate an IEEE port from a PeeCee parallel port - enough to drive a 4040 floppy unit. If the software were there, it'd be easy enough to turn the PeeCee into a virtual disk drive. I think you could find the stuff already done. I don't think you'd have to roll your own code to do this. My X1541 cable also has a 6-pin C= cassette port on it. I have read many PET tapes directly from DOS with a real C2N tape recorder. It's not as reliable as floppies (especially if there's a head alignment problem), but it does work. Slow as molasses in January, though. Personally, the 170K floppy shuffle is the easiest way with the most common hardware. It does require that you have a couple of Commodore devices, but they aren't uncommon. Serial ports on PETs *are* (but I have a couple of IEEE<->RS-232 boxes from "TNW" and one ROM socket ACIA board. Still doesn't make them "common" though). -ethan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/