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Article #2269Re: Read a 800K Macintosh disk on a pc
From: scott
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 1990 00:34
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 1990 00:34
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In article <1990Sep17.184304.9099@athena.mit.edu> acook@athena.mit.edu (Andrew R Cook) writes: >In article <1990Sep17.160625@crazy.inria.fr>, lebastar@crazy.inria.fr (Franck Lebastard) writes: >|> >|> Does any one know how to read a 800K Macintosh disk on a PC (3,5") to get ascii >|> files? > >I could be wrong, but the drive controllers are enough different that you need >some more hardware. Try the Copyiipc option board deluxe from Central Point >Software. It will do what you want for about $70. Uh, I could be wrong, but I don't think the plain Option Board will do the trick. A DELUXE Option Board is required, I do believe. They sell for a bit more, around $110. I had one, and it worked PERFECTLY. -- Scott Coleman University of Illinois scott@kines.uiuc.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!apple!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!blueeyes.kines.uiuc.edu!scott From: scott@blueeyes.kines.uiuc.edu (scott) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Read a 800K Macintosh disk on a pc Message-ID: <1990Sep18.003414.6356@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 18 Sep 90 00:34:14 GMT References: <1990Sep17.160625@crazy.inria.fr> <1990Sep17.184304.9099@athena.mit.edu> Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 19