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From: daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David H. Huang)
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Subject: Re: PCT misinformation
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Date: 1 Feb 91 17:00:39 GMT
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In article <7467609@ub.cc.umich.edu> Tabakal@UB.CC.UMICH.EDU writes:
>working for AE.  There is no SWIM chip on the PCT.  SWIM is a chip

That's sounds reasonable.
 
>On the other hand, the PCT does have circuitry that allows the
>Apple 3.5 disk to read (and *format*) MFM as well as GCR when the
>drive is attached to the card instead of the Smartport.  When the

That does too.
 
>The reason that the disks are not always readable does not have
>to do with the encoding but simply that the Apple drives do not
>make use of the Index hole whereas MS-DOS 3.5 disks do.  So, if

I don't know about that one though. There is no index hole on a 3.5" disk.
Unless you mean that hole in the metal disk in the center. Isn't that just
a good way for the disk drive to lock onto the disk and turn it?

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