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From: laird@think.com (Laird Popkin)
Subject: Re: Portfolio info and rumors
Message-ID: <1991Mar18.222706.27168@Think.COM>
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References: <1991Mar13.152828.27426@colorado.edu> <1991Mar15.223951.10519@Think.COM> <1991Mar16.151110.21732@cs.dal.ca>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 91 22:27:06 GMT

In article <1991Mar16.151110.21732@cs.dal.ca> bill%biomel@cs.dal.ca writes:
>In article <1991Mar15.223951.10519@Think.COM> laird@think.com (Laird Popkin) writes:
>
>I have a couple of machines I sometimes drag around with me, including a
>Pofo as well as the R/S 100 and 200, and I find it a lot simpler to use
>the built-in editors and just import into WP when I get home or to work.
>If I could only solve the problems of getting files from the Pofo into
>my ST over the parallel port life would be a lot simpler!
>
There is a program for the ST (available on GEnie, and I would assume
elsewhere) that is claimed to allow the ST to transfer data with a
Portfolio via the parallel port, through use of a special cable.  The file
includes instructions on building the cable.

>
>-- 
>William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
>P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. (902)426-1577
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