Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-picayune.mit.edu!athena.mit.edu!acook
From: acook@athena.mit.edu (Andrew R Cook)
Subject: Re: Re: MAC <==> PC file transfer
Message-ID: <1991Apr26.135709.18672@athena.mit.edu>
Keywords: Translate
Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system)
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
References: <1991Apr10.153325.26819@wpi.WPI.EDU> <69220020@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com> <1991Apr25.204831.12302@Arco.COM> <3173@travis.csd.harris.com>
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 91 13:57:09 GMT
Lines: 39

HI- 

I missed the beginning of this thread, so bear with me If I mention some
things that were already raised :-)

1)
In article <3173@travis.csd.harris.com>, leoh@hardy.hdw.csd.harris.com (Leo Hinds) writes:
|> ... CIIPC option board ... except that mine will not perform as advertised 
|> with a SONY 3.5" 1.44MB floppy).
|> 
If it doesn't perform as advertised, then call Central Point tech support
until they get it to work.  If they advertised it, then you should expect it
to work.  If they won't give you satisfaction, demand your money back.

2) Has anyone mentioned the DAYNA drives ?  I have one of these, and it works
great.  Just plug it into the SCSI port of the MAC, and drop an init into the
system folder, and then you can transparently use whatever PC drives you have
installed in the DAYNA box (1.44MB, 720KB, 1.2MB, 360KB).  I must admit, I have
had a couple of annoying problems with the DAYNA, but all-in-all it works well
enough.  Comes with some file format converting software too(word pc- word mac;
etc.).  This is not the cheapest route though.  The DAYNA with a 1.44MB and a
1.2MB ran me about $500 two years ago.  This may be cheaper than upgrading your
MAC drives and ROMS to the superdrive though.

3) The cheapest route to go is to just connect a serial cable between the MAC
and the PC, and use Kermit (communications program) on both ends.  This is 
simple to hook up, and the only cost is for the serial cable ($5-$10);  Kermit
is free.  The limitation of this method is the data transfer rate, the upper
limit of which is set by the UART in both machines.  I use this technique at
19200 baud all the time for transferring data to the MAC for plotting&printing.
Of course, be warned, a megabyte of data transferred this way will take
considerably more than 5 minutes.  So if you are going to be doing this often
with large amounts of data, seek another method.


Hope this helps.

Andy Cook
acook@athena.mit.edu