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From: wb8foz@ibiza.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher)
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Subject: Re: can PC format floppy like Apple IIe?
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Date: 23 Sep 89 12:23:21 GMT
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> Article <61890@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> From: holly@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Joe Hollingsworth)

# 
# Can a PC format a disk such that an Apple IIe can read it under ProDos?
# 
# What I'd like to do is format a 5.25" (using Apple IIe ProDos format) 
# on my PC, copy some files to the 5.25" disk from my hard drive and then
# walk over to my IIe and plug it in.
Not without mAJOR mAGIC.
PCs use a disk controller chip, typically made by Western
Digital. Apples use a mostly software solution called the IWZ
for Integrated Woz Machine. It writes in some manner
completely alien to the WD.
There have been add-on boards from time to time. None seem to
last long in the market place. I guess there is not a lot of
demand. 
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