vidiot@cs.fau.edu (Eric Rankin) (01/29/91)
I own the PC Transporter, and am relatively happy with it (as I don't do anything but what my classes at FAU REQUIRE! The manual is quite right about the drive. I formatted a disk at hom on (that messed up--at least locally) at home on the PCT. When I attempted to access the disks at school on the PS/2s, an error resulted (seek error I think?) Oh well...I'm just careful to use IBM formatted disks when transfer is important. Eric
WAXMONRW@SNYBUFVA.BITNET (01/29/91)
On Mon., Jan. 28, Eric Rankin said: >I own the PC Transporter, and am relatively happy with it (as I don't do >anything but what my classes at FAU REQUIRE! > >The manual is quite right about the drive. I formatted a disk at hom on >(that messed up--at least locally) at home on the PCT. When I attempted to >access the disks at school on the PS/2s, an error resulted (seek error I >think?) Oh well...I'm just careful to use IBM formatted disks when >transfer is important. Which is quite true. But it appears to be impossible to predict whether an individual IBM (or compatible) machine will be able to read a disk formatted on the PCT. Even using IBM's own PC-DOS, 3.3, I have found that some IBM machines will and others will not read a PCT disk. Fortunately, the Model 70 I have access to at the college does read the disks I write to at home with the PCT. On the other hand, at another office, no machine, including one IBM, can reliably read these disks. Some of them will read some files on such a disk, others will not read any files on the disk. Sometimes, a file copied from the PCT disk to the IBM compatible, while it is copied, is incomplete. The moral of the story - if it works (as mine does), you are lucky, but as a general rule, Eric is correct; don't bet on it! Ray Waxmonksy (wamonrw@snybufva) P.S. For PCT users, if you are not familiar with the treasure trove (I mean thousands) of pd/shareware msdos files available from Simtel20, drop me a line; I will gladly supply the info.
twb5024@venus.tamu.edu (BOTTING, TYE WILLIAM) (01/29/91)
>>I own the PC Transporter, and am relatively happy with it (as I don't do >>anything but what my classes at FAU REQUIRE! >> >>The manual is quite right about the drive. I formatted a disk at hom on >>(that messed up--at least locally) at home on the PCT. When I attempted to >>access the disks at school on the PS/2s, an error resulted (seek error I >>think?) Oh well...I'm just careful to use IBM formatted disks when >>transfer is important. I *had* a PCT, but I got sick of the lousy CGA graphics it had. I have a //gs, and the least they could have done was use something like the Tandy 16-color version of CGA. I mean, sheesh. It did work like a charm while I had it, though. If they (AE) implement an AT Transporter with at least EGA color, I'd be glad to go out and get one. But the current PCT is so minimal as to be well-nigh useless to me, since the PC-specific programs I'd like to use (ie Ultima VI, SigmaPlot, etc) are silly on VGA. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- TWB5024@venus.tamu.edu Warlock BOTTING@tamcomp twb5024@tamsumma Tye Botting -----------------------------------------------------------------------