Re: File transfers

[mjmahon@aol.com (MJMahon)]

In article <333C37A5.49B0@mc.net>, beau button  <brainy@mc.net> wrote:

>IF your IBM compadible has a 3.5" drive, either 800k or 1.4mb, you can 
>use the Macintosh mentioned before with either Apple File Exchange (part 
>of System 6.0.8) or PC Exchange (for System 7 or later). These programs 
>can read and write to MS-DOS disks. You will also need ProDOS file 
>system in order to read to the ProDOS disk if your Mac has system 7. 
>Just copy the files from the IBM onto it's 3.5" drive, or the Apple II 
>files onto the 3.5" drive and take the files to the mac for transfer 
>using 3.5" disks.

Yep, this is exactly what I do.  I find that almost everything connects
and/or transfers to a PC, and with a Mac as an intermediary, I'm home.
It may be sneakernet, but carrying a handful of 1.4 MB and 800KB
floppies down the hall (to the Mac and back) is pretty good bandwidth! ;-)


-michael

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