Re: Reading Apple ProDOS and Mac disks from an IBM drive: possible?

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From: Jeff Stern
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 1990 19:40

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In article <26a64f94-27.1comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc-1@vpnet.chi.il.us>
drp@vpnet.chi.il.us (Douglas Pokorny) writes:
|Because of the Apple's radically nonstandard disk hardware, it is physically
|impossible to read an Apple formatted disk with standard IBM hardware.

Then how is it the QuadLink board from QuadRam uses the IBM 360K drive and
controller to read and write Apple disks?
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jeff stern     jstern@orion.oac.uci.edu     72647.1527@compuserve.com

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From: jstern@orion.oac.uci.edu (Jeff Stern)
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Subject: Re: Reading Apple ProDOS and Mac disks from an IBM drive: possible?
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Date: 30 Jul 90 19:40:04 GMT
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