4 Feb
2007
4 Feb
'07
8:27 a.m.
From: Liam Busey <buseyl at yahoo.com>
But for me the
biggest problem was
that the Apple couldn't read/write disks from other
machines, unlike the
TRS-80, which used a WD1771 controller and could
handle any single-desity
5.25" disk (I spent many late nights getting it to
read the disks from
the school's RML380Z computers, which also used 1771
controllers).
To be fair though, the Apple Disk II system was not
the only game in town. While they weren't common, you
could get a 3rd party 8" MFM floppy system if you
wanted to.