ferguson@bgsuvax.UUCP (Doug Ferguson) (10/07/88)
I need help. Please MAIL me your reply. My wife's MAC at work (which someone found in storage recently) seems to work, but I'm having trouble helping her. A minor problem is that I am having trouble backing up her only copy of MacWrite (following the manual exactly). Most serious is that I am unable to share some of my apllications with her that I have on 800K disks. I've tried formatting 400K disks on her drive, but when I go to my Mac Plus the disks act strange (showing more memory capacity) and even stranger when I try to use them on her machine. (As in SYSTEM BOMB). Someone suggested that there is some special procedure for transferring stuff from "real" Macs to the original ones. Please help. -- * Doug Ferguson, Bowling Green, Ohio (419) 354-4230 * * ARPA: ferguson%bgsu.edu@relay.cs.net * *** Disclaimer *** * * CSnet: ferguson@andy.bgsu.edu * Opinions expressed are not * * UUCP: ...!osu-cis!bgsuvax!ferguson * those of BGSU. Trust me ! *
bob@eecs.nwu.edu (Bob Hablutzel) (10/09/88)
> Someone suggested that there is some special procedure > for transferring stuff from "real" Macs to the original ones. > > Please help. I'll try. Sound's to me like one or both of the diskette drives is out of alignment. My guess would be the Mac that was found in storage. It is (I believe) possible for a drive out of alignment to read, but not write diskettes from other drives. Talk to a service type person. There should be not problem with transporting diskettes from working 400K drives to working 800K drives. Bob Hablutzel BOB@NUACC.ACNS.NWU.EDU Disclaimer: <Deleted on request of my lawyers>
kent@lloyd.camex.uucp (Kent Borg) (10/12/88)
In article <2921@bgsuvax.UUCP> ferguson@bgsuvax.UUCP (Doug Ferguson) writes: >I need help. Please MAIL me your reply. > >My wife's MAC at work (which someone found in storage recently) seems to >work, but I'm having trouble helping her. ... >Most serious is that I am unable to share some of my apllications with her >that I have on 800K disks. I've tried formatting 400K disks on her ... > >Please help. No. > >* Doug Ferguson, Bowling Green, Ohio (419) 354-4230 * >* ARPA: ferguson%bgsu.edu@relay.cs.net * *** Disclaimer *** * >* CSnet: ferguson@andy.bgsu.edu * Opinions expressed are not * >* UUCP: ...!osu-cis!bgsuvax!ferguson * those of BGSU. Trust me ! * Hurray for your uncooperative Macintosh! You should not be `sharing' with her. What you didn't mean but said was: "...I am unable to give her pirate copies of my applications...". I hope that is not what you are doing. (By the way, where did you get `your' applications? I hope they are legitimate, or are you `sharing' with someone?) Kent Borg kent@lloyd.uucp or hscfvax!lloyd!kent