Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!emory!cambridge.apple.com!spt!mdc From: mdc@spt.entity.com (Marty Connor) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: 800K drives read MS-DOS??? Message-ID: <926@spt.entity.com> Date: 2 May 90 11:21:48 GMT References: <13181@venera.isi.edu> <40653@apple.Apple.COM> Reply-To: mdc@spt.UUCP (Marty Connor) Distribution: comp Organization: Hacks 'R' Us, Cambridge, MA Lines: 51 In article <40653@apple.Apple.COM> marc@Apple.COM (Mark Dawson) writes: >In article <13181@venera.isi.edu> jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan) writes: >> >>Is there a plug or something that you can jack into a port that lets >>you read/write MS-DOS disks with the normal Mac drives? I seem to >>recall hearing abou tit, but I don't know where? >> >>How does this compare price-wise with any other options (short of >>FDHD) for reading MS-DOS disks? >> >Kennect makes a product called "Rapport" (mail order under $250...maybe under >$200, I'm not sure). By plugging it into the disk port (back of your Mac) >and then connecting an external Mac drive to it, you can read and write (but >not format) MS-DOS (720K) disks in that external drive (you can also read them >in the internal drive--you can only read, you can't format or write them). ... >Mark Dawson Service Diagnostic Engineering Actually, you can format them. Apple file exchange will work with the Rapport, and let you format a 720K diskette in a conntected external drive. You can't use the ERASE disk on the SPECIAL menu, though. The Internal drive (with Rapport attached to external drive plug) is somehow enobled to be able to read DOS and ProDos 720K disks. Another product of interest that works with Rapport, is DOS Mounter from Dayna. It lets the MS-DOS disks appear on the desktop like MACOS disks, with little icons and everything. Works pretty well. You can treat them like other Mac disks, and run applications that read from them, and stuff like that. Neat trick. Kennect sells a high density drive called the Drive 2400 or something close that (with Rapport) lets you read high density disks. Next time I have .25K to spare, I'm gonna try one. A few more bits for your byte... Marty [usual revolutionary comments] -- Marty Connor, Marty's Computer Workshop, "Specializing in Macintosh Training" 126 Inman Street, Cambridge, MA 02139; (617) 491-6935 mdc@entity.com, or ...{harvard|uunet}!mit-eddie!spt!mdc