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From: hcj@lzaz.ATT.COM (HC Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Translator One
Summary: Translator one < == > Spectre 128/Magic Sac
Message-ID: <390@lzaz.ATT.COM>
Date: 26 Jan 89 13:23:54 GMT
References: <19703@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>
Organization: AT&T ISL Lincroft NJ USA
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In article <19703@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>, kis@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Kris Iskandar) writes:
> 
> Hello again,
> Thanks for all the response to my question on the Translator One.  I've received
> some conflicting answers.  Everyone agreed that the Translator One will allow
> the Mac disks to be read by the ST.  But, some say it won't let you write a Mac format disk.  Is this true?  I have an ST at home and a Mac at the office. 
> I would like to be able to just insert disks into both machine and work on them.Hope somebody can clear this confusion.  Thanks.
> 

I have Traslator One and you can read and write Mac format disks.
No restrictions.
But its much slower than using Magic format, so I don't use it more
than I have to.  Slow, yes! Always works tho!!!!

BTW: Just to show the kinds of nasties that float arround.
Last week I set out to convert a Mac format disk to Magic for a friend.
I used the floppy copy utility in spectre 128 (running in TOS mode).
No Way.  the copy was happy, but once Spectre started running as a Mac,
Mac would not buy the disk -- it kept trying to FIX a file.

Then I just formated a magic disk (under TOS), and let Mac itsself copy
the disk.  Works perfect.

Either spectre copy is sick, or there is more to copying than first appears.

Howard Johnson
ATT-BL
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