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Re: 800K Floppies



I wonder if there was a way to connect the external 3.5 inch 800k drive 
from an Apple 2 to the serial port on an IBM? Maybe there would be a way...



On Sun, 21 May 1995, Stuart Friedman wrote:

> A program which requires a Macintosh, an MS-DOS machine, and a serial 
> cable to transfer an 800K floppy seems like quite a bit.  Does anyone 
> know of a Macintosh program which will automatically transfer all the 
> files from an 800K floppy to a 1.44 meg disk?  (PC Tool's Fastcopy does 
> something similar for MS-DOS files).
> 
> On a similar note, has anyone else had any problems transferring files 
> from Executor to Macintosh disks formatted by Insignia Solution's 
> Macdisk programs.  I keep pulling I/O errors when I try copying the 
> files to these disks.
> 
> Stu
> 
> 
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