Re: PC -> Mac file transfer via 800K floppy?

[Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net>]

In comp.sys.apple2 rmorgan1@uswest.net wrote:

:> Is it possible to transfer files from a PC to a Mac Plus using the Apple
:> ][ ProDOS floppy format?  Am I going about this all wrong or is there an
:> easier way?  Has anyone else successfully set up a file transfer method
:> via floppy from a PC directly to a Mac Plus?  Without buying an Applied
:> Engineering external SuperDrive for my Mac Plus, is there a software
:> solution/translator to transfer the files I download onto my PC to my
:> Mac Plus via the Mac Plus' 800K floppy?

: Okay, this is an easy one.  First with 7.5 you got a control panal called
: PC Exchange.  This will allow you to read those 800K PC floppies on your
: MacPlus.

Nope nopers. First there is no 800K PC floppy, they're 720K. Apple's 800K
drives won't read MFM disks at all, not even when connected to a superdrive
equipped Mac or superdrive card. If you want to read MFM, gotta use a
superdrive.

Now of course if you meant 800K ProDOS floppies up there, then yep, PC
Exchange on a Plus will do the job.
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