dale@pro-colony.UUCP (System Administrator) (10/25/87)
This is for everybody, but especially for Bill Dickson who asked this
question.
With the PC Transporter (Little Blue Card) you must have a drive capable of
initially reading an IBM type disk. This can be done in 2 ways. The first
way is to purchase the 5 1/4 360k double-sided disk drive that AE is selling
for little blue. This drive will function as an IBM 360k DSDD drive under
MS-DOS, it will also act as a 360k DSDD drive for ProDOS. The second way of
getting your MS-DOS software booted up initially is to get one of the Apple
Platinium 3.5" drives (do not use the white ones!) and connect it directly to
the back of the little blue card. This will function as a 720k IBM disk drive
under MS-DOS and as an 800k drive under ProDOS. Either of these options will
create a disk that is readable in an IBM computer. the Little Blue will act
as a drive controller under ProDOS so that you can still use these drives when
not running MS-DOS. I do not believe the drives will work under Apple DOS
3.3. Once you have your MS-DOS stuff loaded, you can format a standard Apple
Disk II disk as an MS-DOS disk and save your data or applications to it. This
means that if you are in a school situation and needed say 10 little blue
cards, you would only need to buy 1 IBM type drive, you copy your software
over to standard Apple disks and use those. Hope this clarifies things a
little.
dale
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Some inexpensive 3.5 inch 800K drives for Macs, but not for Mac SE or Mac II, are being advertised (Cutting edge, I think, <$170). Do you know if these, or any Mac-compartible drives, will work with the PC Transporter? What about IBM compartible 720K drives? -- | Bruce P. Halpern Psychology & Neurobiology & Behavior Cornell Ithaca | | ARPA: halp@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu | | BITNET: HALP@CRNLTHRY D57J@CORNELLA D57J@CRNLVAX5 | | PHONE: 607-255-6433 Uris Hall, Cornell U., Ithaca, NY 14853-7601 |