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IBM and Atari ST BBSs can very easily communicate with one another (I call IBM
BBSs to acquire IBM software to use with PC Ditto all of the time). Also, I
know IBM users who call Atari ST BBSs in a similar fashion.

The program ARC is a standard and therefore different computers which use ARC
can unARC files from other computer systems. To date I have used ARC521.TTP &
ARC Shell 1.97b to unARC Atari ST, IBM and Amiga ARCed files successfully.
Even the disk formats for Atari ST and IBM disks are nearly similar enough.
Enough that you could stick a 3.5" IBM disk right from the IBM software
package into an Atari ST disk drive and have it work with PC Ditto or be able
to read text files on that disk.

All ASCII codes are the same between the IBM and the Atari ST except for the
graphics characters which are different on all systems but won't affect
telecommunications at all.