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

[Aaron Batiuk <macboy2000@yahoo.com>]

In article <385a676b.9650991@129.3.17.35>, 
edhel@LOSETHECAPITALWORDSbigfoot.com (Edhel Iaur, Esq.) wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Dec 1999 13:03:28 GMT, 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.
> ...
> >Anyway -- I need to find a way to move ShrinkIt disks from
> >the Mac to the IIgs.
> ...
> 
> I wouldn't bet on being able to do Localtalk through your G3's "serial
> port"...Never tried it myself, but it doesn't sound like something the
> Mac would let ya "get away with" ;)
> 

No, it DOES work, if the particular adapter in question supports it 
(this type of adapter generally does, USB-serial adapters never support 
it)

> <snip>

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