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Subject: Q. about MAGIC SAC, PC-DITTO and floppy disk drives.
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Date: Sun, 4-Oct-87 15:00:00 EDT
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I have some questions about about floppy drives
for PC-ditto and Magic Sac and about these emulators.

1) How fast (resp. slow is PC-ditto emulation)?
   Has anyone tried to use it extensively?

2) The IBM-compatible floppy disk drive sold with it
   (able to read 5 1/4" disks) is pretty expensive (~$250).
   Is there ANY SIMPLE WAY OF CONNECTING SOME IBM-PC DRIVE
   (that I have seen advertized for less than $100) to the
   ATARI 1040ST? Do I need a controller to do that, or just
   a special cable? If the latter is true, could someone
   provide a detailed info?

3) MAGIC SAC emulator: Is there any drive, or adapter
   available that would permit to read/write MAC disks directly?

4) Has anyone compared the latest versions of MAC
   emulators: ALADIN (from West Germany, very impressive!)
   and MAGIC SAC?

5)  Does the current version of MAGIC SAC support other
    printers than Imagewriter? Could I print on laserprinter
    using the serial port (since the Apple Talk port is missing).

6) Would any of these Emulators also work with the MAC+ ROM's
   to get HFS support?

                   Jan Zeman, Dept. of EE, URI, Rhode Island.

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