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From: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher,,255RTFM,255rtfm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Reading Apple II disks
Message-ID: <1990Nov30.225316.19409@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>
Date: 30 Nov 90 22:53:16 GMT
References: <1990Nov30.181810.9340@beach.csulb.edu>
Reply-To: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher)
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Apples do not use a hardware style FD controller. Instead, they
used a mostly software scheme Woz developed. There is no way to
read their disks with a PeeSea FD controller.

You can add hardware that does both, but I have no idea if such
a board is still available. At one point, there was.

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