kpopple@javelin.es.com (Ken Poppleton) (11/22/90)
There has been many articles posted regarding the reading of IBM-PC disks on an Apple-II. I reciently met the designer of a card which allows Apple-II systems use IBM-PC disk drives. This provides low cost disk drives for the Apple-II machines. The controller card supports up to 4 drives. Each drive is either a 3.5" 800k byte or 5.25" 360k byte drive. I have two of the 3.5" drives on my Apple-IIe. There is a utility to allow the reading and writing of IBM-PC disks with this controller. The drives are compatable with ProDos and I am working on developing a patch to connect to DOS 3.3 and CP/M. These drives are not a replacement for an Apple drive as they cannot read a disk formatted on an Apple drive, but they do preovide a larger format and can read IBM disks Other disk formats could be accessed if the drivers were created. I think the card can be used on any Apple-II. It costs around $70. For further information send mail to me: kpopple@esunix@orca.es.com or the the designer plm@fili@esunix@orca.es.com Ken Poppleton Evans & Sutherland kpopple@esunix@orca.es.com kpopple@esunix@utah-cs kpopple@esunix@orca.es.com@cs.utah.edu The views expressed are mine only and have no relation to E & S. How could they when E & S makes the ESV a Unix Graphics Workstation selling for 100 times the cost of my Apple-IIe.