2 Oct
1998
2 Oct
'98
3:09 p.m.
On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Jason Simpson wrote:
This is one of those things that would be good if it was
reverse-engineered, would Symantec be pursuaded to release the specs or
allow reverse-engineering? If it were possible to get the specs, you could
copy just about anything with one of these, I've had no reliability
problems with copying mac disks on a 386 with one of these cards, i don't
think they take to newer machines that well tho.
Cheers
Karl
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Karl Maftoum
Computer Engineering student at the University of Canberra, Australia
Email: k.maftoum(a)student.canberra.edu.au
I've got one of these Central Point Copy II
PC "Option Board"s in the
basement.
Does anybody know if it would be possible for a computer equipped with an
Option Board to read and write disk images (even of raw GCR data, say) or
does the Option Board require two drives and simply pass incoming data
directly to the output drive without the computer seeing the data at all?
The HARDWARE could do it.
The option board came with 2 programs:
TC to copy disks
TE to display data and clock from disk tracks.
The later "deluxe" model added software for reading/writing Mac 400K/800K
disk formats.