Can Masscomp floppy drives read IBM PC floppies?

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From: Leonard J. Trejo
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 1988 23:12

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We occaisonally need to upload files from IBM PC floppies to our
Masscomp 5500.  Now, we use software (PROCOMM) and a serial connection
between an IBM clone and the Masscomp to upload the data--very slowly.

Has anyone figured out if the Masscomp floppy drive can be programmed
to read IBM PC style floppies?

		L. J. T.

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[The answer is probably, under special conditions. There is some source 
available the supposedly works from egray@fthood.UUCP. It is available
from the comp.sys.masscomp archive files in the ARCHIVE.Vol2.Z file.
You can down load this file from soma.bcm.tmc.edu via anonymous ftp. -- sob]
Stan           internet: sob@bcm.tmc.edu         Baylor College of Medicine
Olan           uucp: {rice,killer,hoptoad}!academ!sob
Barber         Opinions expressed are only mine.

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From: trejo@nprdc.arpa (Leonard J. Trejo)
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Subject: Can Masscomp floppy drives read IBM PC floppies?
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Date: 19 Aug 88 23:12:44 GMT
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