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From: gavin@krypton.asd.sgi.com (Gavin Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: To and From a Mac
Message-ID: <1991Feb2.200848.16842@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 2 Feb 91 20:08:48 GMT
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I have an Amiga 1000 at home, and want to word process/spreadsheet at
home, then take the results to school to be printed on one of many
Mac's connected to LaserWriters.

First, I'd like to hear any comments from people who are doing
somethink like that-- are you using AMAX?  Mac2Dos? A modem and PD
software?  How difficult is it?  What kinds of files are you able to
transfer?  Can you transfer word processor files?  Spreadsheet files?

Next, I want to do all of this as inexpensively as possible; I don't
want to buy a new computer right now (there is really nothing exciting
enough out there), but I could get a Mac Classic with 40 meg hard
drive for close to $1,000, so it must cost less than that.

In addition to the Mac stuff, I'd need to get a hard drive for my
Amiga to make the setup bearable.

It looks like everything will cost (all prices from a local Amiga
store, except for the external mac disk, which is the price quoted
from the Stanford bookstore):

Mac2Dos:              $112.00  Supra HD controller:   189.00
800 K MacDisk:         277.00  Fujitsu 45 M Drive:    279.00
-----------------------------  Power Supply, box:      95.00
MacStuff               389.00  Cables:                 15.00
-----------------------------  -----------------------------
Grand total (Mac+Drive)967.00  Hard Drive             578.00

Are there less expensive hard drives available for the Amiga 1000?
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--gavin     (gavin@sgi.com,  (415)335-1024)