🚀 go-pugleaf

in article <17578@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU>, pv9y@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU says:
> What I'm interested in is a new equivalent to the Translator One, since I
> can't stand the concept of working with Magic format disks.  The Translator
> was pretty slow, but considering the speedup that the SPectre supposedly has,
> it seems reasonable to assume that such a beast could be done by David Small,
> Wizard at Large.

	Dave is currently working on a new version of the Spectre 128,
the Spectre GCR.  This new version will include additional hardware to
handle reading, writing and formatting Mac disks.  Disk I/O should be
about the same speed as a real Mac.  Dave is hoping to release the
Spectre GCR sometime in the spring of '89. 

	Currently you can use the Spectre 128 with the Translator One
(from Data Pacific).  This is slow but does allow you to directly read
and write Mac disks.  I would recommend that you use Spectre format (ie.
ST readable) disks as much as possible.  They are much faster than Mac
disks with the Translator One.  Just use the Translator One when you
need to transfer files to or from a real Mac.



				Dan Moore
				AT&T Bell Labs
				Denver
				dlm@druhi.ATT.COM
					or
				dlm@druwy.ATT.COM