Reading Apple Disks On IBM

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1 total messages Started by Ann Hopkins Fri, 08 Jan 1993 17:09

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Author: Ann Hopkins
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 17:09

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I lost the original message to respond to, so here goes.

There was and may still be a way to read apple IIe disks on a 5 1/4" drive
on an IBM PC, but it is hardware based.

A company called Diamond (now famous for selling a high speed Windows Video
card), made boards called Trackstars; these were Apple IIe emulators.  The
board also had connections to the floppy drive allowing it read and run
disks.

My father has some old versions of the card which only run on CGA or
monochrome monitors, but the card is incompatible with some of the newer
peripheral boards.  The company may still sell the Trackstars; they were
supposed to have some boards which ran on VGA monitors as well.

FYI,
Ann Hopkins

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