chas@gtss.gatech.edu (Charles Cleveland) (03/07/89)
I am not a regular reader of this group and would so appreciate a response by email. If I get over 10 requests for a summary I will summarize here. Otherwise I will send the summary by email to the requesters. Mary, a friend of my wife's, runs a Desktop publishing outfit and my wife would like to be able to take an IBM 3.5 in. floppy and give it to her with say, for example, WordPerfect documents on it. Now how WP documents, or any other files, might have to be converted once they are on a Mac disk or in its memory is not the question here. We want to know what Mary can do with the IBM 720K 3.5 in. floppy in her hand and her Mac on her desk. (Yes I know what kind of Mac but I ain't telling. The answers will give me some perspective. But please say what kind of Mac your answers apply to.) What hardware or software solutions are there available to a Mac user who wants to read a MSDOS 720K floppy on their machine? Software solutions are preferred. I'm sorry if this is the millionth time so far this year that this question has come up here. The subject didn't seem to be in any of the unexpired articles from this group on this machine (I did look first). Thanks. -- "Our vision is to speed up time, eventually eliminating it." -- Alex Schure Charles Cleveland Georgia Tech School of Physics Atlanta, GA 30332-0430 UUCP: ...!gatech!gtss!chas INTERNET: chas@gtss.gatech.edu
blob@apple.com (Brian Bechtel) (03/07/89)
In article <346@gtss.gatech.edu> chas@gtss.gatech.edu (Charles Cleveland) writes: > Mary, a friend of my wife's, runs a Desktop publishing outfit and my wife > would like to be able to take an IBM 3.5 in. floppy and give it to her > with say, for example, WordPerfect documents on it. Now how WP documents, > or any other files, might have to be converted once they are on a Mac disk > or in its memory is not the question here. > > We want to know what Mary can do with the IBM 720K 3.5 in. floppy in her > hand and her Mac on her desk. She has several options. All of them involve hardware. The Macintosh and IBM use different bit encoding methods, so she can't read the disk without additional hardware. Dayna makes a fine product called DaynaFile which plugs into the SCSI port and contains enough smarts so that IBM floppies come up on the desktop and look like Mac disks. Dayna Communications, 50 South Main, Fifth Floor, Salt Lake City, Utah 84144 Konnect sells something that plugs into the external floppy port and allows access to IBM 720K 3 1/2" floppies. I don't have their address in front of me. Apple sells the Macintosh IIx and Macintosh SE/30, which have the ability to read Apple II or Macintosh 400K and 800K floppies as well as IBM style 720K and 1440K floppies. We also sell a 5 1/4" external floppy drive. You can use any of these in conjunction with Apple File Exchange to transfer files back and forth. Of the choices, I think the Dayna is the most transparent. Disclaimer: I work for Apple. These are my opinions, not Apple's. --Brian Bechtel blob@apple.com