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From: knotts@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com (Tom Knotts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Deluxe Board 5.4; PC-MAC disk interface
Message-ID: <80330010@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com>
Date: 22 Jan 91 23:50:07 GMT
Organization: HP Labs, High Speed Electronics Dept., Palo Alto, CA
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I have a PC and have the need to read and write files to/from a MAC. I
have come across the Deluxe Option Board 5.4, which purports to allow
the 1.44M 3.5" PC disk to read/format/write a MAC disk. The board is
inserted between the drive and drive controller.  To use the drive as a
MAC, an `m' is inserted before the DOS command - `mformat' formats the
disk in MAC format, etc.

Has anyone used this product? It is just the thing I need, if it works.
Fry's has it for $140.

For the moment, I plan to transfer RTF files. Later on if I get daring,
I might try to transfer and convert other formats such as .DOC from WfW
to Word for MAC, maintaining all of the details of the formatting.
Anyone had any experience converting?

thanks,

tom