Date : Wed, 24 Mar 2010 23:47:36 +0000
From : pete@... (Pete Turnbull)
Subject: Re-using floppies
On 24/03/2010 21:20, Alex Taylor wrote:
> On 24 March 2010 20:49, Pete Turnbull <pete@...> wrote:
>> However, despite
>> various experts stating that you can't handle Apple ][ disks on a
>> standard PC, I recall something on t'internet about a trick to doing
>> exactly that a year or two back. Needless to say I can't find that in
>> my bookmarks, but I'll ask on ClassicCmp, if anyone is interested.
>
> You're not thinking of Amiga disks are you? I recall reading something
> about being able to read 800K Amiga disks in a standard PC by using
> two floppy drives and some software trickery.
Knowing my random access memory, that is quite possible! Can you find a
reference?
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York