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From: stelmack@sunrise.ec.usf.edu (Gregory Stelmack)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Mac disk read/write
Summary: Anybody want to help me deal Macs a blow?
Message-ID: <31@sunrise.ec.usf.edu>
Date: 29 Jun 90 00:25:31 GMT
Reply-To: stelmack@sunrise.UUCP (Gregory Stelmack (CS))
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Organization: University of South Florida, Tampa
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All right, guys, here's the situation:

Here at USF, we have a computer lab available for all students, most of whom
do word processing. It contains LOTS of Macs, and 2 Amiga 2500s. For some
as yet unexplained reason, the Amigas are not totally functional (not hooked
to the printers). Seems the lab has some sort of network setup, and the stuff
to hook the Amigas to it hasn't come yet. I think the machines were donated
(maybe by C=), and whoever gave them is slow on the rest of the hardware.

Anyway, we have two perfectly good 2500s just sitting there. Now, if I had a
PD Mac disk reader/writer, students could use the Amiga WP (Excellence! -- I
THINK it does PostScript), save their file to disk, and take it to the main
Mac that controls laser output for printing. This would be a cheap, quick
way to get interest going on the Amiga while the lab waits for the rest if the
stuff.

Anybody want to help the Amiga cause?

-- Greg Stelmack
-- Email: stelmack@sol.csee.usf.edu or stelmack@sunrise.ec.usf.edu
-- USmail: USF Box 1510, Tampa, FL 33620-1510
-- Amiga: the only way to compute!