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From: mbk@hpsemc.HP.COM (Miles Kehoe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: WordPerfect for MAC & IBMPC
Message-ID: <620002@hpsemc.HP.COM>
Date: 19 Apr 88 23:00:43 GMT
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Organization: HP SEMC, Cupertino, CA
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I don't have the specifics I'm afraid, but at the Macworld show last
February in San Fran, there was a company showing a 5.25 inch disk
drive which hooked into Mac via SCSI and read and wrote IBM format
files to the disk.  When you first put a IBM disk in the drive, the
Mac creates a 'desktop' (invisible) file, so it knows how to icon
each file.  Then, you simply put the IBM disk in the drive and
treat it like any other MAC disk drive.  I'd say WordPerfect, which
has the ability to write it's own file formats for use on the PC
version, should be the choice.  As I understand, MS-WORD is not file
format compatible, tho you can save a mac file as ascii.

Cost for a single 360K drive w/ controller was about $500 I think.

Miles