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Date: 95-05-19 23:27:43 EDT
From: CompExpr
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>From: tjrc1@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk (Tim Cutts)
>To: CompExpr@aol.com
>CC: executor@nacm.com
>In your message (Tue, 16 May 1995 09:15:10 -0400), you wrote:
>>
>>It would be great if someone (other than our overworked friends at ARDI)
would
>> cook up a program to transfer 800k Floppies from a Mac (through a Null
modem
>>cable) to a DOS/LINUX/NEXTSTEP .HFV file. Hint.. Hint...
>
>This is impossible. The 800k macs used a variable speed drive; it's
>a hardware problem not a software problem. A PC (or modern mac)
>drive simpley cannot read the variable speed format.
>
>Tim.
Tim,
Read my message above closely...
It says: It would be great if someone wrote software that would allow you to
transfer 800k disks FROM A MAC to a PC through a serial cable.
The different type of floppy drive doesn't matter here since you WILL be
reading the 800k disk on a MAC on a variable speed drive.
Not only is this NOT impossible, I can do it now with my Magic Sac MAC
Emulator on the Atari-ST. The Atari ST Magic Sac creates an MFM (IBM PC)
formatted 800k diskette from the 800k GCR (MAC) formatted disk by
transferring the contents of the disk through a serial cable..
Hope this clears up your confusion.. (Seemed pretty clear to me..)