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Article #35386Re: IBM -> Atari Disk
From: Phil Hughes
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 1988 22:00
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 1988 22:00
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In article <1403@virginia.acc.virginia.edu>, wfp5p@euclid.acc.Virginia.EDU (William F. Pemberton) writes:
> Does any one out there know of a way to for a ST and an IBM PC to
> read/write each others disk formats? I'm trying to get some of the
> binaries for my girlfiends ST, but the only access that I have to the
> Net is through PCs.
Easy -- just get a cable from E. Arthur Brown Co. (612-762-8847)
part number 127-403 for $39.95 with software and get a 40 track DOSish
disk drive and hook it up to the Atari.
Ataris are smart enough to read DOS disks and with the software you can
write DOS boot sectors so the DOS system can read disks written on the
Atari. Works great. We use it to transfer PostScript images from the
Atari to our UNIX system.
Or, you can put a 720K, 3-1/2" floppy on the DOS system. Then just format
the disks on the DOS system and all work fine.
--
Phil Hughes, SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549, Seattle, WA 98155 (206)FOR-UNIX
uw-beaver!tikal!ssc!fyl or uunet!pilchuck!ssc!fyl or attmail!ssc!fyl
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!uw-june!uw-entropy!dataio!pilchuck!ssc!fyl From: fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: IBM -> Atari Disk Summary: atari's are smarter than you think Message-ID: <1572@ssc.UUCP> Date: 7 Dec 88 22:00:42 GMT References: <1403@virginia.acc.virginia.edu> Distribution: na Organization: SSC, Inc., Seattle, WA Lines: 21