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From: scotty@l5comp.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Reading Mac disks on the Amiga.  The Answer is...
Message-ID: <148@l5comp.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 24-May-87 19:24:46 EDT
Article-I.D.: l5comp.148
Posted: Sun May 24 19:24:46 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 28-May-87 06:03:20 EDT
References: <8705221955.AA05310@cogsci.berkeley.edu> <6938@amdahl.amdahl.com>
Reply-To: scotty@l5comp.UUCP (Scott Turner)
Organization: L5 Computing, Edmonds, WA
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Summary: Clap clap clap, get 'em Kim! :)

In article <6938@amdahl.amdahl.com> kim@amdahl.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn) writes:
>Uh, Bryce ... you really shouldn't be wasting the net's time and bandwidth
>with this kind of thing ... I mean, afterall, this is "impossible" to do
>(as we all should well know by now), and therefore any such discussions
>(and, by implication, any such *PRODUCTS*) are pointless!
>
>Oh, and by the way, bumblebees can't fly, and the human  body cannot
>survive a sustained speed in excess of 32 mph, and people will never
>reach the moon, and ...
The Titanic was unsinkable. :-)

However, unless someone out there can explain Apple's CRC routine the impossible
may just remain that. :( Could it be this is the REAL reason we can't read Mac
disks? I don't think so because my mailbox get's these letters telling me it
can't be done for other reasons. :) The last one was: Disk pulsing isn't
reliable and it's bad for the drive. Ergo you can't read Mac disks...

Either pass the info to me or contact Central Coast Software. CCS isn't on the
net, but they are on BIX. So you could also post it on BIX and they would get
it.

I don't work for CCS, but I haven't worked for any of the other firms I've
helped link up with the info they require. I get no cash benifit from passing
this info along. I'll get a free copy of the program, but I'll get that wether
I connect them with the CRC info or not (lucky me, I get to beta test it). Just
think of me as an un-reformed Eagle Scout. Also, there IS another group working
on reading Mac disks as well. If the info reaches me I can pass it along to
BOTH groups... Neither group wished to be placed under a time pressure, hence
I hadn't used their names, but Bryce just had to take a guess and put the gun
to one of them... But I had nothing to do with that and I'm NOT rolling over
on the other bunch.

Scott Turner


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