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Article #27360Re: WordPerfect for MAC & IBMPC
From: Miles Kehoe
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1988 23:00
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1988 23:00
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I don't have the specifics I'm afraid, but at the Macworld show last February in San Fran, there was a company showing a 5.25 inch disk drive which hooked into Mac via SCSI and read and wrote IBM format files to the disk. When you first put a IBM disk in the drive, the Mac creates a 'desktop' (invisible) file, so it knows how to icon each file. Then, you simply put the IBM disk in the drive and treat it like any other MAC disk drive. I'd say WordPerfect, which has the ability to write it's own file formats for use on the PC version, should be the choice. As I understand, MS-WORD is not file format compatible, tho you can save a mac file as ascii. Cost for a single 360K drive w/ controller was about $500 I think. Miles
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!ucsd!sdcsvax!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!hplabs!hpda!hpsemc!mbk From: mbk@hpsemc.HP.COM (Miles Kehoe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: WordPerfect for MAC & IBMPC Message-ID: <620002@hpsemc.HP.COM> Date: 19 Apr 88 23:00:43 GMT References: <550@mccc.UUCP> Organization: HP SEMC, Cupertino, CA Lines: 14