Re: Direct serial connections between NeXTs and Macs

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From: alevine
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 20:06

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In article <dillon.0smm@overload.Berkeley.CA.US>  
dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes:
> In article <1992Dec9.195748.12166@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>  
matthews@ecfa.jsc.nasa.gov (Michael C. Matthews) writes:
> >In article <1g41imINNfu0@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>  
hubt@css.itd.umich.edu (Hubert Chen) writes:
> >>In article <1g3a9qINNgke@keats.rick.cs.ubc.ca> x4y092@rick.cs.ubc.ca  
(Steven Kenneth Besler) writes:
> >>>
> >>>Wrong.  Not all DOS disks are 1.44 Meg.  Low density (720k) DOS disks  
can
> >>>...
> >
> >The Super Wozniak Integrated Machine (SWIM) chip is used in newer
> >Macs, with the SuperDrive (1.44 meg) floppy drive.  The Wozniak
> >Integrated Machine (WIM) chip was used previously, on the 800-K
> >..
> >
> >Of course, any of what I just wrote may be bunk, since it's all off
> >the top of my head, and comes from my possibly shaky recollection of
> >reading the Spectre-GCR manual a couple of years ago and a few old
> >MacWEEK articles about the SuperDrive...
> 
>     Boy, what a waste of money!... the Amiga got 880K out of 720K  
floppies
>     on standard fixed-speed drives simply by reading and writing whole
>     tracks at a time.  Encoding is standard MFM.  No sector gap means  
more
>     sectors per track.
> 
>     :-)
> 
> 					-Matt
> 
> 
> >--
> >Mike Matthews, ex-Tether Dude +------------->	  
matthews@ial7.jsc.nasa.gov
> >"Had the Shuttle on a String"  \_ Now accepting NeXTMail via  
KlugeNet(TM)!
> >Lockheed-ESC		       |
> >Houston, TX		       |	  *** WILL HACK FOR FOOD ***
> 
> --
> 
>     Matthew Dillon		dillon@Overload.Berkeley.CA.US
>     1005 Apollo Way		uunet.uu.net!overload!dillon
>     Incline Village, NV. 89451	ham: KC6LVW (no mail drop)
>     USA 			Sandel-Avery Engineering (702)831-8000

On this note, I have an old Mac 800 K drive sitting around, left over from  
when I upgraded my SE (talke about a waste of money...).  Any way I can  
rig a SCSI bus for it so I can read all those old 800K disks on my NeXT?   
No?  Didn't think so...
--
Alexander Levine	Department of Philosophy
alevine@ucsd.edu	0302, UCSD
			La Jolla, CA 92093  
************************************************
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Subject: Re:  Direct serial connections between NeXTs and Macs
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