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From: wilker@descartes.math.purdue.edu (Clarence Wilkerson)
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Subject: Re: Reading Apple II disks
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Date: 30 Nov 90 20:06:39 GMT
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The first version of the Copy II PC card would copy apple II diskettes
and do bit level editing. The editing was limited because on the disks
it takes as I recall, 6 bits to represent 4 logical bits. The program had
no knowledge of formats beyond this. Nor did there seem to be a way to
copy the bits from the disk into a  MSDOS file for processing by another
program. So I think that while the hardware capacity is there, the software
is not, and with no documentation, hard to generate on one's own.
  The newer versions support Mac disks at a logical level, but don't
seem to read the apple II disks.
Clarence Wilkerson