hultquis@unc.UUCP (Jeffrey P. Hultquist) (04/10/86)
Is there some way to convince a 1040 to read a MacIntosh disk, and vice-versa? Nothing fancy is needed, just pulling off bytes. My department has Macs connected to its Vaxen, and I intend to buy a 1040. It would be nice to use a departmental Mac as a disk drive to up/download files between my 1040 and the Vaxen. Thanks. -- -- Jeff P.M. Hultquist hultquis@unc decvax!mcnc!unc!hultquis
rb@ccird2.UUCP (Rex Ballard) (04/16/86)
In article <1315@unc.unc.UUCP> hultquis@unc.UUCP (Jeffrey P. Hultquist) writes: > > Is there some way to convince a 1040 to read a MacIntosh disk, > and vice-versa? On the regular Macs, which use the "Incredible Woz Machine" drive, the chances are very slim, each ten or so tracks, the density changes. This was originally done to improve reliability on inner tracks and improve density on outer tracks. Appearantly, the Mac Plus drives are a little more "conventional" and may be easier to use under some sort of standard interchange mode. You might be able to hack up the Mac OS to write ST format disks. The best way to get bytes between the two machines is to use a serial link or modem and kermit or xmodem. Perhaps, when Atari comes out with their SCSI interface, you will be able to transfer disks between those drives. Other problems such as directory formats, "resource" (file) formats, and meanings of data would have to be handled via software. It probably wouldn't be too hard to write a program that enables the mac to read ST disks. Going the other way might not be so easy. Hope that helps a little.