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From: rickc@pogo.WV.TEK.COM (Rick Clements)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Program to read C128 disks on a PC???
Summary: Big Blue reader runs on C128 with 1571
Message-ID: <9745@pogo.WV.TEK.COM>
Date: 5 Sep 90 16:20:01 GMT
References: <856@iiasa.UUCP> <6441@darkstar.ucsc.edu>
Reply-To: rickc@pogo.WV.TEK.COM (Rick Clements)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville,  OR.
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In article <6441@darkstar.ucsc.edu> ted@helios.ucsc.edu (Ted Cantrall) writes:
>>I am looking for a program to read/write C128 diskettes on a
>>PC-compatible.

>I've heard there is one called "the Big Blue Reader", but i've never seen it.
>If you get ahold of one, let me know. I have some C64 data that needs to go
>to IBM, too.			-ted-
 
Big Blue Reader works well, but it doesn't run on the IBM.  It runs on a C128
with a 1571.  It will read and write the 48 TPI IBM disks (double density).  It
can't read the high density disks.  (I have no trouble reading double density
disks written on a high density drive.)
-- 
Rick Clements (RickC@pogo.WV.TEK.COM)