c60a-2ce@e260-2c.berkeley.edu (Mikey) (10/23/88)
I am currently running a Mac/Apple BBS that supports file transfers for both machines. The board itself is being run off of my Apple //e (the peon!). As it is, I have to transfer Mac files back & forth via null modem cable. I want to know if there is a faster (19.2K bps is too slow for the amount of transfers I do), more efficient way of doing this. Specifically, can I network my 2 computers so that either one can get files directly off the other one's hard disk? How much extra hardware/software will this require? What is the most economical route I can take? --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please reply via e-mail; I just don't have enough time to go thru the entire newsgroup. Thanks a lot! c60a-2ce@web.berkeley.edu@ucbvax.berkeley.edu...................Mikey *** Call Tanelorn III! (415) 540-1180. The Apple/Mac BBS of Berkeley.
joseph@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Seymour Joseph) (10/25/88)
Using the Apple File exchange program on your mac, you can directly read and write 3.5" prodos disks in your Mac disk drive. I had just finished getting the proper cable and had stretched it across the room between my apple // and my mac to find out it was too short. Right before I strangled myself with it I thought of the Apple File exchange program. I gave it a try, launched it and inserted a Prodos formatted floppy. It recognized it and copied files without a problem. Whew! No more cables, terminal programs and obscure telecomm settings. Seymour
shankar@src.honeywell.COM (Subash Shankar) (10/25/88)
In article <Oct.24.16.56.28.1988.21421@elbereth.rutgers.edu> joseph@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Seymour Joseph) writes: >Using the Apple File exchange program on your mac, you can directly >read and write 3.5" prodos disks in your Mac disk drive. Does anybody know of any decent translaters for AFE? The only ones I have seen are the Appleworks <--> Microsoft Works translaters (and text files off course), and it would be nice to have translaters for other typical formats.
bh1e+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Brendan Gallagher Hoar) (10/27/88)
I saw about 10 different translaters at a computer store called Clinton Computers (of Alexandria, VA). The area code is 703. Make sure that you ask for the Alexandria store, though (call information there). Of course, calling LD might not be worth your time... Brendan G. Hoar Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburg, PA bh1e+@andrew.cmu.edu