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From: kpopple@javelin.es.com (Ken Poppleton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: 3.5" & 5.25" disk drive controler card for IBM-PC drives
Summary: A disk controller card which uses IBM-PC drives allowing reading
Keywords: disk, IBM-PC, files, hardware, floppy disk
Message-ID: <1990Nov22.022104.1508@javelin.es.com>
Date: 22 Nov 90 02:21:04 GMT
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Salt Lake City, Utah
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There has been many articles posted regarding the reading of IBM-PC
disks on an Apple-II.  I reciently met the designer of a card which
allows Apple-II systems use IBM-PC disk drives.  This provides low cost
disk drives for the Apple-II machines.  The controller card supports
up to 4 drives.  Each drive is either a 3.5" 800k byte or 5.25" 360k
byte drive.  I have two of the 3.5" drives on my Apple-IIe.  There is
a utility to allow the reading and writing of IBM-PC disks with this 
controller.  The drives are compatable with ProDos and I am working on
developing a patch to connect to DOS 3.3 and CP/M.  These drives are not
a replacement for an Apple drive as they cannot read a disk formatted on
an Apple drive, but they do preovide a larger format and can read IBM disks
Other disk formats could be accessed if the drivers were created.

I think the card can be used on any Apple-II.  It costs around $70.

For further information send mail to 
me:  kpopple@esunix@orca.es.com
or the the designer
plm@fili@esunix@orca.es.com

Ken Poppleton
Evans & Sutherland 
kpopple@esunix@orca.es.com
kpopple@esunix@utah-cs
kpopple@esunix@orca.es.com@cs.utah.edu

The views expressed are mine only and have no relation to E & S.  How could
they when E & S makes the ESV a Unix Graphics Workstation selling for 100 times
the cost of my Apple-IIe.