marmar@mtk.UUCP (Mark Martino) (08/17/89)
In an effort to maintain familiar, but not too intimate, ties with the MS-DOS world in which my Mac must co-exist, I am looking for an external 5 1/4 inch disk drive with software that will let me read and write in MS-DOS format from my Mac. I already know how I can put a 3 1/2 inch drive in an IBM PC clone and read and write Mac disks, but I'd like to get the clone off my desk and keep it off. I need to be able to dump to MS-DOS once in a while because our current breed of emulators run on clones.
csachs@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Colin Sachs) (08/18/89)
In article <894@mtk.UUCP>, marmar@mtk.UUCP (Mark Martino) writes: > ... looking for an external > 5 1/4 inch disk drive with software that will let me read and write in > MS-DOS format from my Mac... If anyone has information on this, please post it. I'ld like to see it too. I work in a 99.99% all Mac/Apple computer lab, but personally have a PC that was given to me. I'ld like to port my thesis work over to the Mac for final printing on the LaserWriter (the Mac's are *not* a part of the campus WAN yet). If it is inexpensive enough, I might be able to convince the Psychology Department to purchase the necessary equiptment. -- Colin Sachs csachs@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu "Nature within her inmost self divides To trouble men with having to take sides." - R. Frost
scb1@tank.uchicago.edu (Sam Blackman) (08/18/89)
Apple makes a 5.25" drive ... and now I'll quote from the latest piece of
Apple literature ...
APPLE PC 5.25 DRIVE
This drive offers a straightforward way to use MS-DOS data in your
Macintosh applications. It lets your Macintosh SE, IIcx, II or IIx
computer read files from and write them to a 360K, 5.25-inch MS-DOS-
formatted media. A Macintosh SE-Bus PC Drive Card (M5023/A) or
Macintosh II PC Drive Card (M5056/A) is required.
- Provides easy data exchange between Macintosh and MS-DOS
formatted disks
- Offers 360K of on-line data storage per disk
- Provides the same data-transfer rates as MS-DOS drives
Apple PC 5.25 Drive A9M0110
Hope this helps !
Sam
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Chicago, IL 60637 ! Telephone : (312) 702-8630 (w) (312) 947-8652 (h)xdab@tank.uchicago.edu (David Baird) (08/18/89)
I have had good luck with the DaynaFile device. When it is on at startup, any DOS disk insterted in it (mine is configured for 5 1/4", 360k and 3 1/2" 720 and 144k disks) looks and acts like a Macintosh disk. I can copy files to and from it. I usually copy any files to my Mac's hard disk for un DOSing (converting to Mac Word, etc.) because of speed, but everything works and looks just like a Mac disk. Cost was around $800 18 months ago.
jordan@Morgan.COM (Jordan Hayes) (08/18/89)
In article <894@mtk.UUCP> marmar@mtk.UUCP (Mark Martino) writes:
I already know how I can put a 3 1/2 inch drive in an IBM PC
clone and read and write Mac disks, but I'd like to get the
clone off my desk and keep it off.
Really? Must it be a 1.44 drive, or is there software to read Mac
disks on 720K 3-1/2" drives?
/jordancaptkidd@athena.mit.edu (Ivan Cavero Belaunde) (08/19/89)
In article <725@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU> csachs@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Colin Sachs) writes: >In article <894@mtk.UUCP>, marmar@mtk.UUCP (Mark Martino) writes: >> ... looking for an external >> 5 1/4 inch disk drive with software that will let me read and write in >> MS-DOS format from my Mac... There are a number of way to transfer files from the IBM PC to the Mac... 1) To do *exactly* what you ask for, you will need either Apple's 5.25 PC drive, or a Daynafile. With Apple's drive, you read and write files to and from the PC drive using Apple Filex Exchange, included with your Mac. Although I haven't seen it working, it is my understanding that the DaynaFile is more elegant, actually showing the disks on the desktop and allowing direct read/write to them via the Finder or the SFPackage. 2) You could transfer files from 5.25 to 3.5 PC format using a PC with both size drives and then use a FDHD equipped Mac and AFX to transfer the files. 3) You could try to find a network with both Macs and PCs on it running TOPS. Then to transfer all you had to do is mount the disk and copy to/from it. 4) You could connect a PC and a Mac together via the serial port and use MacLink to copy files to and from the PC (it also does file format conversion, and I think [not sure] that the serial cable is included). I'm sure there're more ways to transfer the stuff (Rapport, for example), but this should do. -Ivan Internet: captkidd@athena.mit.edu