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From: rharrie@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: 1581 disk drive
Message-ID: <2025@ac.dal.ca>
Date: 28 Sep 90 10:52:12 GMT
References: <kayZVPy00WBLA2Vkxa@andrew.cmu.edu>
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Organisation: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

In article <kayZVPy00WBLA2Vkxa@andrew.cmu.edu>, rw2w+@andrew.cmu.edu (Robert William Weiman) writes:
> Does anyone know if there is a program (or even if it is possible...)
> to either read 720K MSDOS format disks in this drive - or to read/write
> 1581 disks in a standard pc-clone drive (720K or 1.44M).
> 
> thanks
> bob

There is a program called Big Blue Reader, which does exactly this if you have
a 1571 disk drive (ie. reads/writes 360K PC disks).  I am not sure if this
works on the 1581, or if there is a separate version for that drive.

Robert.

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