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From: SAB121@PSUVM.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: I*M M*-D*S disks and AMI*A disks
Message-ID: <89289.132411SAB121@PSUVM.BITNET>
Date: 16 Oct 89 17:24:11 GMT
References: <8910142320.AA12132@trout.nosc.mil>
Organization: Penn State University
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In <8910142320.AA12132@trout.nosc.mil> you said:
|Network Comment: to #1257 by
|munnari.oz.au!csc!ccadfa!usage!basser!metro!ipso!fawlty!johnmac@uunet.uu.net
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|The Apple 3.5" drive can be read/written at the low level more or less like we
|used to have to treat the Apple 5.25" drives.  It's just very uncommon,
|because the smartport takes care of everything.  It is possible, with work,
|to make the drive read 720k IBM disks.  As for those 880k Amiga disks, I have
|no idea...

|Jeff
||uucp: [ucsd, nosc] ..!crash!pro-houston!jeffn  | "If I wanted your opinion, |
||inet: jeffn@pro-houston.cts.com                |    I would have given it   |

Do you have any programs that allow you to read the MSDOS disks? I was looking
for something that could read IBM disks on a MAC, read in text files, and save
them to a MAC disk.  I tried using AFE on the MACs here at school and was told
that you need a SuperDrive to read IBM 720K disks. Since I can't afford one and
PSU most probably won't buy one, I'm trying to find something else to do the ro
utine.  If I could change it to an Apple IIgs file (I have one in the dorms, th
ank God) then I could use AFE to move it to a MAC for printing on the Laser pri
nter connected to the MAC network. Any help would be appreciated.