CP/M on an Apple II ?

[Fred Cisin]

On Sat, 8 Oct 2005, jim stephens wrote:
> I think the 3 1/2" disks might be easier to recover data from, since it
> might have been hooked
> up thru a "real" floppy controller, rather than apples annoying 5 1/4
> system.

That would have made sense.  Therefore, NO.

> The format from that controller was bizarre enough I don't know if there
> was any way
> to read them on the IBM PC's disks.
It is, of course, "impossible".

But there are some amazingly ridiculous kludges, involving things such as
switching drive select in mid read! (sorry, no single drive Dells :-)


>  Maybe something like the copy 2
> option board
> might read the data and store it. does 22/disk read those?
The option board hardware can do it, but Central Point actively did NOT
want third party software written for it.
Catweasel also can handle the hardware issue, but what software is
available?
There were half a dozen "flux-transition" boards that interrupted the
cable between FDC and drive.