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From: urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: CD-ROM player for both Mac and PS/2
Message-ID: <1414@smurf.ira.uka.de>
Date: 19 Jan 90 22:59:18 GMT
References: <19715@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU> <6211@internal.Apple.COM> <1391@key.COM>
Reply-To: urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de (Matthias Urlichs)
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
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In comp.sys.mac.hardware perry@arkon.key.COM (Perry The Cynic) writes:
< 
< Unfortunately, the PC/Mac issue for CD ROMS is important. As of today,
< about 70% of all CD ROM titles (of my random sample) seem to come with
< PC retrieval software, with the remaining 30% being Mac-ish disks.  I don't
< want to give up on either side. But what's a user to do? I'm not sure...
<   -- perry

Can the PC be connected to LocalTalk?

If so, the solution is going to be slow (unless you can use Ethernet hardware
or something) but manageable. Connect the CD-ROM to the Mac, publish it with
your favorite AppleShare-lookalike (my own should be ready sometime, too :-)
and mount the disk from the PC. Basically, no problem.

-- 
Matthias Urlichs