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From: akm@spencer.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Reading APPLE ProDos on IBM
Summary: matchpoint
Keywords: prodos <-> DOS <-> mac
Message-ID: <1990Jul25.044422.452@cs.uoregon.edu>
Date: 25 Jul 90 04:44:22 GMT
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In article <12665@netcom.UUCP> ergo@netcom.UUCP (Isaac Rabinovitch) writes:
>In <7842@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> ssdken@watson.Claremont.EDU (Ken Nelson) writes:
>> Can you read Apple ProDos disks from an
>> IBM machine?  What software may allow this?

>Central Point Software sells various versions of its CopyIIPC board
>which allow you to connect a Macintosh drive to a PC or make a PC
>drive emulate a Mac drive.  I dimly recall being told that there's
>also a board for Apple II drives.  It certainly wouldn't be a
>suprise, since the Mac and the A-II share the weird variable-speed
>disk controller that squeezes in a little more data but make the
>disk unreadable with fixed-speed drives.
>
Micro Solutions, DeKlab Illinios makes two cards which would be of
interest. Their names are MatchPoint and MatchMaker. I can't remember
which is which. I've installed both into an IBM PC. One allows you to
connect a standard Mac drive to a port on the card, and you can then
read and write mac disks on a pc. The other is a card that sits
between the original floppy drive card and the floppy drive, and
allows the floppy to read and write Apple II disks.

There is also a bunch of software that comes with a Mac which can do
the trick. With the Mac OS, you get Apple File Exchange, which allows
the mac to read and write Prodos disks (3.5", which you can make on
most Apple IIGS's, they tend to have one of each kind of drive.

Macs fitted with FDHD (superdrives), the 1.44 meg variety, all SEs and
upwards that are sold now have them, can read and write PC disks using
apple file exchange.

Depending on what hardware you have available, one or the other should work.

kartik
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