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Article #449Re: Mac-to-DOS File transfers
From: prangba
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 15:28
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 15:28
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bateman@nsslsun.nssl.uoknor.edu (Monte Bateman) writes: >Someone posted here last week asking about MAC to DOS transfers. >I just read an ad in PC Week (July 13, p. 105) about a (new?) product >that will do this transfer. Their ad says >------------------------ begin un-paid advertisement ----------------------- >MAC-to-DOS Transfer from PLI >The First Mac-to-DOS File transfer utility! > - Format Macintosh cartridges and diskettes on your PC > - Transfer text, graphics and spreadsheets from Mac media > to your PC > - Read Mac files on your PC > - Supports Microsoft compatible mice >No additional hardware or cabling is needed! I saw this ad and it allows 1.44MB Mac file transfers. This is really pretty simple since the format of the Mac HD disks (i.e. 18, 512 byte MFM sectors, 80 tracks, 2 sides) is readable by a HD 3.5" disk drive. The 800k and 400k disks are not stored using MFM and need a special controller to read those disks so file transfers are much more difficult.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer,alt.msdos.programmer Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!psinntp!psinntp!polari!prangba@polari.online.com From: prangba@polari.online.com Subject: Re: Mac-to-DOS File transfers Message-ID: <1992Jul22.152801.26240@polari> Keywords: Macintosh, PC, MS-DOS, diskettes, file transfer Organization: Seattle Online Public Access Unix. (206) 328-4944 (all lines telebit-equipped) References: <1992Jul19.215340.29331@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 15:28:01 GMT Lines: 24