Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!remus.rutgers.edu!declan From: declan@remus.rutgers.edu (Declan McCullagh/LZ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Reading Sun formatted Disks Message-ID: Date: 20 Apr 91 02:35:45 GMT References: Your message of 12 Apr 91 21:50:56 GMT Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 20 In article , werner@rascal.ics.utexas.edu (Werner Uhrig) writes: > > > I was wondering if there was anyway that a Mac can read a floppy disk > > formatted by one of those beasts. Somehow I doubt it, but you never know > > Anyone with urgent need, please get in touch with me. (I hear > NeXT-users are expected to get exstatic over this...) That's interesting. Just FYI, in the reverse direction, it's possible to read and write 400K/800K/1.4MB Macintosh disks on a NeXT with a commercial program called FloppyWorks by DIT. It's a little pricey, but works fairly well. Now, NeXT is using the new barrium oxide 3.5" 2.88 MB drives, and IBM (among other manufacturers) has announced plans to incorporate the new drive in future products. If clone makers follow suit, as they have in the past, odds are good that the next generation of MS-DOS clones will be able to read Macintosh disks with the appropriate software... -Declan