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From: tgray@pieman.compserv.utas.edu.au (Tony Gray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Spectre Questions
Message-ID: <1991May12.001956.8922@pieman.compserv.utas.edu.au>
Date: 12 May 91 00:19:56 GMT
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In article <48837@ut-emx.uucp> tdrga@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Todd Drga) writes:
>In article <1991May7.205903.1293@mailer.cc.fsu.edu>, boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu
>(Mickey Boyd) writes:
>
>|>a Spectre 128 would probably be fine.  Actually, if you happen to have a 
>|>Syquest SQ-555 hooked to your ST, and have access to a Mac similarly 
>|>equiped, you have it made.  You can move stuff around at 44mb a pop.  Much 
>|>better.  
>
>Does this actually work?  I have a Syquest drive and would be  very
>interested in
>transferring stuff back and forth from Macs (since it seems that the Mac is
>the computer-that-I-must-have-on-my-desk-to-be-cool here at UT)
>
>I would think that the disk formats would be different, since Apple tends to
>want to keep thinks like that to themselves, but if Syquest has a proprietary
>format that they use for their drive, it seems as if that wouldn't get in the 
>way. 
>

I think you might have missed the earlier part of the discussion - for this
to work you would have to have a Spectre 128 and Macintosh ROMS (in other
words, you could read a Mac-formatted syquest cartridge on the ST, but only
if you were running Macintosh emulation on the ST at the time.)

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