binder@asd.dec.com (Born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad) (09/29/86)
RE: Eric Swanson's assertion that there is an IBM-PC board that will read Apple disks. True. I don't remember the name of it, Quadram sticks in mind but that's probably wrong. But the board isn't a disk adapter, it's an Apple ][ emulator that will allow you to pretend that your PC is an Apple. It doesn't support format conversion between disk formats - when it's active, your PC is no longer a PC. The board will do almost but not quite all of the things an Apple ][ does, but unless there has been an upgrade, it isn't even close to an Apple //e or //c. Cheers, Dick Binder ARPA: binder%asd.DEC@decwrl.ARPA
WGRCU@CUNYVM.BITNET (10/01/86)
QUADRAM came out with a product called the QUADLINK a few years ago. It consists of a board which you plug into your IBM PC and some software, part of which runs in PC mode, some of which you can boot in Apple mode to use for copying files. Unfortunately, I had to copy from Apple CP/M to IBM PC format, so I first had to find a program to copy to Apple DOS from CP/M. I managed to find what I hope is a public domain program on a disk which someone had given me (it's called CPMXFR), and after figuring out how to use it without any documentation, I managed to get it to convert my files to Apple DOS. Then, I got the PC booted in Apple mode running this thing they call the "Filer" and copied them to IBM PC format. It wasn't fun, but it worked just fine.