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From: rwallace@vax1.tcd.ie
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Universal machine-readable format?
Message-ID: <6830.26e573b4@vax1.tcd.ie>
Date: 5 Sep 90 21:52:51 GMT
References: <1990Aug15.165518.16675@phri.nyu.edu> <3025@aix.aix.kingston.ibm.com> <1990Aug17.045225.15087@looking.on.ca>
Organization: Computer Laboratory, Trinity College Dublin
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In article <1990Aug17.045225.15087@looking.on.ca>, brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
> Modern Macs can read the 3.5 inch disks with the Apple File Exchange.
> Atari STs can read them fine, too.
> 
> 
> Almost complete safety thus comes from using both.  No need for an extra
> Mac disk due to the AFE.


Amigas and Atari STs (and most other machines that use 3.5") can read MS-DOS
format 720K 3.5" disks, but I thought the Mac was physically incapable of it
because it spun the disk faster on the inner tracks or something like that. I'd
be very interested in some way to interchange data between Macs and other
machines.

- How does the Mac get around the above-quoted problem?

- Can the Mac write IBM format disks?

- Can an IBM or Amiga be made to read Mac format disks?

Any info on the above from anyone would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

"To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem"
Russell Wallace, Trinity College, Dublin
rwallace@vax1.tcd.ie