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From: stew@endor.harvard.edu (Stew Rubenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: PC Drive (What good is it???)
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Date: 20 May 88 01:18:36 GMT
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In article <8805182013.AA24460@decwrl.dec.com> hunt@firqb.dec.com (Phil Hunt) writes:
>   I just bought a 5.25" PC drive and controller for my Mac II.  Yes, I know
>that $400 for a 360k drive is exhorbitant, but I needed the connectivity.  My
>question is this:  Why doesn't the MacOS know about the drive.  I mean, why 
>can't I use it as a Standard Mac drive.  Is it only useable with 3rd party stuff
>like SoftPC??  Does any Apple stuff recognize it??  

Yes, the Apple File Exchange program, which you will find on the
4-disk System Tools and Utilities distribution, is what you use to
access that drive.

Stew Rubenstein
Cambridge Scientific Computing, Inc.
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