Re: Can Ampro R/W other floppies?

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From: mwilson
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1986 21:02

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     The current AMPRO BIOS allows the reading of over 60 different disk
formats, but sadly, Apple is not among them. An Apple drive uses GCR coding,
rather than the MFM format that most drives use. I'm not saying that it's
impossible, but I don't think it can be done.

Marc Wilson
crash!pnet01!pro-mercury!mwilson@nosc

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Subject: Re: Can Ampro R/W other floppies?
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