Xref: utzoo comp.sys.cbm:1453 comp.sys.ibm.pc:16093 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mandrill!gatech!mcnc!ecsvax!cjl From: cjl@ecsvax.UUCP (Charles Lord) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm,comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: is it possible to read/write Commodore disks on an IBM PC? Summary: Apple started it all.. Keywords: disks read write commodore ibm Message-ID: <5176@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: 2 Jun 88 20:23:55 GMT References: <4760@watdcsu.waterloo.edu> <719@lakesys.UUCP> <10473@ism780c.isc.com> <9519@e.ms.uky.edu> Distribution: comp Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service Lines: 16 In article <9519@e.ms.uky.edu>, simon@ms.uky.edu (George Simon) writes: > > Has anyone ever heard of a GCR controller? > Does anyone use GCR besides Commodore? Apple started it all with the Apple][ disk drives which are all GCR. But, no, - you can't read Apple<->C64/128. The only GCR controller I ever knew of was the IWM - Integrated Woz Machine that is/was proprietary to Apple. Here's a useless task for you hackers on the net: Interface the IWM to the PC bus to read/write Commodore diskettes. Send entries to Wayne Greene c/o the poor house. Charles Lord cjl@ecsvax.UUCP/BITNET