11 Mar
2006
11 Mar
'06
1:24 a.m.
On Fri, 10 Mar 2006, Hans Franke wrote:
As for hardware, there have been some solutions.
First
to my memory is always the Turnover board, which I found
a good (some particulat list member might have a different
opinion:) solution back when I had a PC/XT and an Apple II.
IFF you find a working one (high failure rate), and IF you find
a drive that it works OK with (I used TM100-2), then the Turnover
is OK. File system support is Apple-DOS, Apple CP/M, Apple Pascal,
Pro-DOs.
(BTW, it was "Apple Turnover" until Apple's lawyers visited Vertex.)
Just, the Turnover is a strict PX or PC/XT board. I
never
got it working in an AT (or above) machine.
I did, but not reliably.
Oh, and don't forget the Trackstar Board(s),
basicly an
Apple II or IIe on a PC-Card, a huge IC-Graveyard. It can
and the QuadLink from
Quadram (> 70% DOA)