CD ROM drives on the ST w/ Spectre

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From: Winter92 BEACON ec333 account
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 04:56

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I plan to get Spectre GCR VERY soon & most likely an SST as well (I have
to do some Mac work)..
My question is this: Can I hook a CD-ROM up to my ST that will AT LEAST
work with the mac? It doesn't necessarily have to do anything useful with
an ST, as long as it acts like a normal mac cd-rom..
Would I need a megatalk board for this or will my ICD adapter be good enough?
Also, I've heard that the Mac 1.44 meg disks are identical to IBM 1.44's..
Is this true? Could I, in theory, take a 1.44 meg Mac disk to my PC, read the
1.44 disk onto hard drive, re-write to an 800k and move to my ST? That would
be nice as well.. (I assume that copying files from the ST to a Spectre 
partition IS possible?)..


-- 
Mattias Hembruch
mghembruch@electrical.watstar.uwaterloo.ca
or ec333way@sail.uwaterloo.ca

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Subject: CD ROM drives on the ST w/ Spectre
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