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- Subj: Re: mac 512k
- Date: 95-05-19 23:27:43 EDT
- From: CompExpr
- To: tjrc1@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk
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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:
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- >>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...
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- >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.
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- >Tim.
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- Tim,
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- Read my message above closely...
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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..
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- Hope this clears up your confusion.. (Seemed pretty clear to me..)
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- - Al Hartman -
- Computer Expressions
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