Re: Media mortality (< facing your own mortality)

On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 3:11 PM,  <li_sasxsek@...> wrote:
> That would be great if such a thing existed, but the Apple II had a proprietary
> disk interface (to save costs) so they don't work with the standard disk
> controller chips that others used.
Ah, right, disk controller.  Sorry, I was thrown by my experience - I
used a Commodore and the external disk drives were self-contained
secondary computers, with the controller and even the DOS contained
within the drive unit, and only a serial interface between them and
the main cpu.  So you can hook them up to a PC pretty easily.

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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