Re: Mac->IIgs AppleTalk -- possibly my only option, a good one?

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Blake Patterson <blake@blakespot.com> wrote:

>	I have a blue&white G3 400 Mac (that, of course, has no floppy drive). 
>Apparently all of the USB floppy drives I can add to this machine are
>MFM and will not write 800K HFS (or ProDOS) disks.  I just ordered a
>full IIgs system on eBay and anxously await its arrival.  (I've had
>40-some-odd machines over the years and the IIgs was easily the most
>enjoyable.)  Anyway -- I need to find a way to move ShrinkIt disks from
>the Mac to the IIgs.  
>
>	There is an addon for the USB-based b&w G3 that will make the internal
>modem port a bonified serial port.  I believe I can run AppleTalk thru
>it.  Is there any forseeable problem with attempting an AppleTalk
>connection to the IIgs??  I just need the proper cable, right--the GS
>does AppleTalk thru its serial port, right?
>
>	Any other ideas would be appreciated.  I do have daily access to PC's
>at work, so if there was some way to write a GS-readable disk, that
>would be great as well.

Do you have an SCSI Iomega Zip drive lying around?  That could
provide the bridge between Mac and IIGS using Zip disks.  If not,
do you have an old SCSI hard disk drive?  That could also be
used as a go between.  The trick is to have the entire disk (a
Zip) or one or more partitions (on a hard disk) formatted as HFS
so the Mac will see it.  The Mac will not see ProDOS partitions
or Zip disks even with PC Exchange.