Re: Imation USB SuperDisk

[Tilghman Lesher <tilghman@nospam.the-tilghman.com>]

Wayne Stewart wrote:
> David Empson wrote:
>
>> I can't remember when I last wrote to a ProDOS floppy disk on a Mac (I'd
>> be more inclined to write to an HFS floppy and read that on the IIgs,
> 
> For the IIgs HFS works extremely well, however both my IIe and II+ also
> have SuperDrives so for them it would be nice to be able to write to
> ProDOS floppies with the Mac.
> 
> Maybe the best solution would be to pick up an ethernet card for the
> IIgs and that way I won't need to move files through a chain of
> computers. Be a good item to demo for an Apple II meeting.

I've done something similar without getting a IIgs ethernet card.  If
you have a Mac with both a localtalk port and an Ethernet card, you
can run Localtalk Bridge (unsupported Control Panel from Apple) on the
Mac (OS 9 or earlier).  I was able to mount a volume from a Unix box
running netatalk on the IIgs (despite the fact that the IIgs was not
directly connected to the Unix box) and transfer files quite easily.
This should also work for any other machine on the network running
Appletalk.

With a simple Google search, I was able to find the Localtalk Bridge
software here:
http://www.seismo.unr.edu/ftp/pub/mac/LWBridge2/
and here:
http://help.earthlink.net/techsupport/dsl/macpoet/html/localtalk.html

-Tilghman