Date   : Thu, 22 Oct 1992 02:05:07 PDT
From   : pallio.UUCP!dg@mis.ucsf.EDU (David Goodenough)
Subject: apple II --> IBMPC

mneufeld@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Michael John Neufeld) sez:
>In article <9210200704.AA23397@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
>C588212@MIZZOU1.MISSOURI.EDU writes:
>>I am looking for a program that will allow and IBMPC to read
>>Apple II disks. .....
>
>If you're talking about the old Disk II CP/M format (from way back
>in the old ][,][+, and //e days), you might be out of luck.  .....
>From what I gathered by reading comp.sys.apple2 the old Apple
>disks use a radically different encoding method, .....

Yup - that's about the size of it. Like the old Commodore PET and
C64, the Apple uses a GCR recording scheme, which is incompatible
with the MFM hardware in a PC. It's also incompatible with
Commodore's GCR scheme, but that's life. I think you'll find you
gotta get hold of an Apple 2 of some vintage to read those disks.
     dg
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