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- From: Albert Hartman <compexpr@tribeca.ios.com>
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- Subject: Re: 800k disks possible at all?
- Date: Thu, 09 May 1996 13:50:16 -0700
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- Stuart Friedman wrote:
- >
- > >Central Point used to sell their Copy II Option Board for the PC which
- > >did this on a standard PC drive, but I believe it was
- > >withdrawn because it also allowed copy-protected software to be
- > copied.
- > >
- > Central Point used to market the option board first and foremost as a
- > tool to copy copy-protected disks. I doubt that this was the reason
- > that it was discontinued. I suspect that they stopped making it
- > because they weren't selling enough copies, particularly when the
- > business software programs stopped using copy protection schemes.
- >
- > Stu
-
- I think they discontinued it because as systems became faster (this board
- was originally designed for XT-Class PCs), this board became more and
- more problematic.
-
- My board was VERY unstable on an ACER 1100/20 386 based system, but 100%
- on my old Turbo-XT & 286 12mhz systems.
-
- Also, the driver software needed to be updated everytime Microsoft
- updated DOS.
-
- My feeling is that at the time Central Point was making more money with
- PC-Tools and Central Point Backup and directed their efforts in that
- direction.
-
- There is also a product called MatchPoint that reads (from a real 800k
- Mac Drive) Mac 800k diskettes on an IBM. MicroSolutions (the people who
- make the BackPack brand of External CD-ROM/Hard Drive/Floppy drives made
- it.). I don't know if it's still available.
-
- A cheap Mac Plus or SE and a Mac to PC Transfer program may be the
- simplest, cheapest option these days... (A Mac Plus can be had for $99.00
- or less..)
-
- - Al Hartman, Computer Expressions -
-
- - Al -
-
-