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From: ergo@netcom.UUCP (Isaac Rabinovitch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Reading APPLE ProDos on IBM
Message-ID: <12665@netcom.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jul 90 21:00:14 GMT
References: <7842@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
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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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