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From: jeburke@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (John Burke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Removable media
Summary: Has anyone tried...?
Keywords: NeXT, next, Next, floppies, removable, Macintosh
Message-ID: <2891@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 11 Oct 89 20:43:43 GMT
Reply-To: jeburke@jhunix.UUCP (John Burke)
Followup-To: com.sys.next
Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF
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Greetings.

I have recently started reading this news group, and am thinking about
buying a NeXT.  I have a question, though, about removable storage
media.  While I have no qualms about the idea of the optical disk
being my main storage device, it would be nice to be able to trade
data with (non-network) machines lacking optical drives. 

Since there are SCSI ports available, I assume that I should be able
to hook any SCSI drive  to the cube.  

So, my questions:

     Has anyone attached a 1.4M (3.5 in) disk drive to a NeXT?
     Has anyone been able to, say, read Mac disks (if extra software is
         necessary, what do you use?) on the NeXT, or write disks
         which  a Mac can read?

Thanks ahead of time for any information you might have to share,

John Burke

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