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From: cd5340@mars.njit.edu (Charlap David)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Wanted: Macintosh Disk reader
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Date: 8 Jan 91 21:17:11 GMT
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In article <1991Jan08.190030.12703@usenet@scion.CS.ORST.EDU> mcgredo@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (Don McGregor) writes:
>In article <344.2788f84b@zodiac.rutgers.edu> you write:
>>Are any programs that enable one to easily read 3.5" floppies
>>formatted on a Macintosh in an IBM 3.5" disk drive? (Or programs that
>>enable a Macintosh to read IBM formatted disks)?
>>
>   Any of the recent Macs (those intro'ed since the IIx) have a 
>   SuperDrive which reads either Mac or DOS disks.  You can use
>   Apple File Exchange to pull in data from the DOS side or write 
>   to DOS disks.  Late model SE's also have the SuperDrive.

If you have a mac without a SuperDrive and don't want to pay Apple for one,
there is a device out called Rapport(tm)  (I forget the manufacturer, but
it's advertised in MacWorld).  This device plugs into your mac's drive port
and will let it read/write IBM-720K disks and a new format: 1.2M Mac disks
using Apple File Exchange.  They also sell an external drive which, when used
in conjunction with the Rapport device will allow you to read IBM-1.44M disks
and a new 2.4M Mac format on HD diskettes.  It'll also read/write whatever
else the SuperDrive can work with.  I believe that Rapport with the 
special drive unit costs less than Apple's price for a replacement SuperDrive.

-- Dave