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- From: ashok@biochemistry.cwru.edu (Ashok Aiyar)
- Newsgroups: bionet.software
- Subject: Re: Re. MAC-PC connection
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 20:17:17 GMT
- Organization: CWRU School of Medicine
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- Message-ID: <ashok.170.725314636@biochemistry.cwru.edu>
- References: <9212250633.AA10728@net.bio.net>
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- In article <9212250633.AA10728@net.bio.net>
- SJJ@ICBR.IFAS.UFL.EDU ("JONG, SONG-MUH J") writes:
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- >There was a discussion about the need of reading and manipulating MAC disks
- >on PCs. The following information from the Jauary issue of BYTE is rather
- >informative:
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- >For high density disks:
- > Mac-In-DOS from Pacific Microelectronics (800)628-3475; (415)948-6200
- > $199 (DOS version), $249 (Windows version)
-
- >For double-density disks:
- > MatchMaker from MicroSolutions Computer products (815)756-3411
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-
- There are other options available. For HD disks, try the shareware program
- Macette.exe -- available from a few FTP sites - try Archie for which ones.
-
- For DD disks, Matchmaker requires you to already possess an external Mac
- floppy drive -- which runs about $150 - $300, in addition to buying the
- MatchMaker card -- which in trun costs about $100.
-
- A much cheaper solution is to purchase the Copy II PC Deluxe Option Board
- from Central Point which lets most PC 720K and 1.44 meg drives read, write
- and format 800K Mac disks. It works rather well -- I use one myself. The
- board runs about $100, and you can use your existing 3.5 inch drive.
-
- Ashok
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- Ashok Aiyar
- Department of Biochemistry
- CWRU School of Medicine
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