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Re: convert and transfer Mac files to a PC
- Subject: Re: convert and transfer Mac files to a PC
- From: mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)
- Date: 24 Jan 2003 03:43:04 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
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Jeff Thomas wrote:
>If you don't have access to a Macintosh. I have MS-DOS utility that can
>read/write high and low density Macintosh disks on standard high density
>PC 3.5" disk drive.
No, you don't.
If you check, you'll see that it only works with 1.44MB 3.5" disks,
not 800KB (variable-speed, GCR) disks.
Software alone cannot bridge the gap between PC disk hardware
and Apple disk hardware.
>I used it, for transferring files - including pictures, I scanned in, at
>home on my PC to Macintosh disk for High School and was readable on real
>Mac, along with the images!
>
>Now, if only I had a similar utility for Apple II 3.5" ProDOS formatted
>disks on a PC. Any programmers willing to program one??
-michael
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