[comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc] Reading APPLE ProDos on IBM

ssdken@watson.Claremont.EDU (Ken Nelson) (07/18/90)

 Can you read Apple ProDos disks from an
 IBM machine?  What software may allow this?

 I have a client who needs to get data from
 an Apple IIe to an IBM-PC.  I could hook
 up a serial line and do it, but it would
 be better if the IBM disk drive could read
 the Apple ProDos disk.

 If you can think of any other methods, please
 let me know.


	Thanks for any assistance.


			Ken Nelson

ergo@netcom.UUCP (Isaac Rabinovitch) (07/25/90)

In <7842@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> ssdken@watson.Claremont.EDU (Ken Nelson) writes:


> Can you read Apple ProDos disks from an
> IBM machine?  What software may allow this?

> I have a client who needs to get data from
> an Apple IIe to an IBM-PC.  I could hook
> up a serial line and do it, but it would
> be better if the IBM disk drive could read
> the Apple ProDos disk.

> If you can think of any other methods, please
> let me know.


>	Thanks for any assistance.


>			Ken Nelson
Central Point Software sells various versions of its CopyIIPC board
which allow you to connect a Macintosh drive to a PC or make a PC
drive emulate a Mac drive.  I dimly recall being told that there's
also a board for Apple II drives.  It certainly wouldn't be a
suprise, since the Mac and the A-II share the weird variable-speed
disk controller that squeezes in a little more data but make the
disk unreadable with fixed-speed drives.

A good source for this kind of stuff is Programmer's Connection
(800 336 1166).  They'll help you figure out whether one of the
boards they carry will solve your problem if they can, and if they
can't they can give you the CPS's phone number.
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akm@spencer.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal) (07/25/90)

In article <12665@netcom.UUCP> ergo@netcom.UUCP (Isaac Rabinovitch) writes:
>In <7842@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> ssdken@watson.Claremont.EDU (Ken Nelson) writes:
>> Can you read Apple ProDos disks from an
>> IBM machine?  What software may allow this?

>Central Point Software sells various versions of its CopyIIPC board
>which allow you to connect a Macintosh drive to a PC or make a PC
>drive emulate a Mac drive.  I dimly recall being told that there's
>also a board for Apple II drives.  It certainly wouldn't be a
>suprise, since the Mac and the A-II share the weird variable-speed
>disk controller that squeezes in a little more data but make the
>disk unreadable with fixed-speed drives.
>
Micro Solutions, DeKlab Illinios makes two cards which would be of
interest. Their names are MatchPoint and MatchMaker. I can't remember
which is which. I've installed both into an IBM PC. One allows you to
connect a standard Mac drive to a port on the card, and you can then
read and write mac disks on a pc. The other is a card that sits
between the original floppy drive card and the floppy drive, and
allows the floppy to read and write Apple II disks.

There is also a bunch of software that comes with a Mac which can do
the trick. With the Mac OS, you get Apple File Exchange, which allows
the mac to read and write Prodos disks (3.5", which you can make on
most Apple IIGS's, they tend to have one of each kind of drive.

Macs fitted with FDHD (superdrives), the 1.44 meg variety, all SEs and
upwards that are sold now have them, can read and write PC disks using
apple file exchange.

Depending on what hardware you have available, one or the other should work.

kartik
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fordke@ingr.com (Keith Ford x8614) (07/27/90)

in article <1990Jul25.044422.452@cs.uoregon.edu>, akm@spencer.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal) says:
> 
> In article <12665@netcom.UUCP> ergo@netcom.UUCP (Isaac Rabinovitch) writes:
>>In <7842@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> ssdken@watson.Claremont.EDU (Ken Nelson) writes:
>>> Can you read Apple ProDos disks from an
>>> IBM machine?  What software may allow this?
> 
>>Central Point Software sells various versions of its CopyIIPC board
>>
> Micro Solutions, DeKlab Illinios makes two cards which would be of

I use a board called Trackstar that is a full Apple //e coprocessor.
You can use the floppy drives to read in ProDOS files, then convert
them to MSDOS format.  You also get to use the hard drive with both
ProDOS and MSDOS.  The Trackstar, since it is a coprocessor, can
continue to operate in the background while you do your MSDOS stuff
in the foreground.  I use one for an Apple2/IBM BBS I run.  If you
would like more info, let me know.  I have a big packet of stuff.
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