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Re: Reading Mac 1.44 disks on IBM?

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From: Staffan K-E Ungsgard
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 15:42
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reyy@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
: Greetings,
: 
: I am looking for a utility to allow me to read 1.44 Mb MAC
: disks on my 1.44 IBM drive.  Something along the lines of
: Apple File Exchange for the Mac.  I need to transfer 
: machine-independent (pure text, GIF, Postscript, etc) files
: from Mac disks to IBM format.
: 
: 
Copy2Pc Option board Deluxe, which is a plug in card that sits between
the PC floppy controller and the floppy driver itself, will both read
and write all Macintosh formats, including the variable spin method.
I paid 129$ for it back in 1988-89. The tools to read and write files
were quite rudimentary, but worked ok.

-- Staffan Ungsgard.
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From: staffan@nynashamn.telesoft.se (Staffan K-E Ungsgard)
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Subject: Re: Reading Mac 1.44 disks on IBM?
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Date: 29 Oct 92 15:42:25 GMT
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