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From: d89-zke@alv.nada.kth.se (Zoltan Kelemen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: 1581 disk drive
Message-ID: <1990Oct10.164300.21830@nada.kth.se>
Date: 10 Oct 90 16:43:00 GMT
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The problem reading 64 disks on an IBM are that they use different formats
for storing data. IBM uses MFM, Commodore GCR. Because the most of the work
reading a disk on a PC is done by hardware, there is no way for a piece of
software on a PC to read a GCR disk without extra hardware.