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greenh49@wharton.upenn.edu (Jeffrey Greenhouse) writes:

>Hi,
>   I am hoping that someone out there can help me. I have a Power
>Macintosh and access to a Pentium 90, both networked, that I do graphics
>work on. I need to find a way to get graphics from either of these to an
>Amiga 2500 w/ Video Toaster that is not networked and, from what I can
>tell, can't read mac or PC formatted disks. Are there any utilities for
>the Mac or the PC that can let them read and write to Amiga formatted
>disks? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you,

This can be done using MSDOS floppies as the medium. I would suspect that 
your Amiga 2500 has at least OS 2.1 if it has a Toaster in it. CrossDOS 
came standard with OS 2.1. If you have a high density drive in the Amiga, 
you can use the 1.44MB MSDOS floppies. If it's just double density, you 
can still use the 720K.

Your PowerMac should have PC-Exchange which allows access to MSDOS 1.44MB 
or 720K. You could transfer the files on the MSDOS disks between any of 
the three systems.

A better solution if you could afford it would be (providing the Pentium 
has a SCSI controller) to use either a SyQuest or Zip drive. These will 
work on any of these three systems with SCSI. This would allow between 95 
to 127 megs of data on each cartidge at a time for greater efficiency.

If you need more details on setting this up, I could try and help. I've 
done lots of strange things, like transferring a PC zip archive from my 
Mac HD partition directly to a 1.44MB PC floppy on my Amiga. :-)

>                           Jeffrey Greenhouse
>                           greenh49@wharton.upenn.edu
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