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From: charles@mnetor.UUCP (Charles Benaiah)
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Subject: Re: Magic Sac
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Date: Mon, 23-Nov-87 10:01:22 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 23 10:01:22 1987
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>>The Magic Sac works with the 64K ROMs, and even Apple has announced that they
>>will no longer support the 64K ROMs anymore - most new commercial applications
>>that I have seen require the 128K ROMs.
>

Does this mean that the machine has to be opened, and the new ROMs inserted,
or are they plugged into some external box?


>>Also, if I am not mistaken, there is
>>no way to interchange disks between the two machines (read Mac disks in an ST
>>or read ST disks in a Mac), this really isn't a viable alternative.
>
>Not true.  Data Pacific just released the Translator One, a box which plugs
>into the ST's MIDI ports and somehow modulates the signals coming from the
>normal ST drive so that the emulator thinks they are coming from an odd Mac
>drive (I have more trouble with Mac drives on Cornell's public Macs than any
>other computer system we have percentage-wise, though I heard the C-64 had a
>similar problem).  The only problem is that it only currently allows MFS
>(though double-sided) disks.  Again, Small is working on getting it to
>support HFS.

Will this system (transaltor 1) also work for internal drives, or does this
box connect to the MIDI, and to some external drive?