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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!well!tswift
- From: tswift@well.sf.ca.us (Theodore John Swift)
- Subject: Re: Software transfer IIsi->Powerbook
- Message-ID: <Bs8w4v.LCr@well.sf.ca.us>
- Sender: news@well.sf.ca.us
- Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
- References: <1992Jul31.055315.22820@news.acns.nwu.edu>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 08:41:18 GMT
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- > Is there an easy way to transfer software from an internal drive
- > on, say, a IIsi to the internal drive on a Powerbook? Can I make
- > the IIsi recognise the Powerbook's internal drive in some way,
- > or am I stuck switching floppies?
-
- It depends what model of Powerbook you have. The PB 100 is
- (ironically) the only model that can be put into so-called
- SCSI Disk Mode, where the PB 100 can be connected to the SCSI
- bus of your desktop Mac using a couple of expensive cables, and
- it simply and elegantly appears as another disk drive on your
- desktop Mac's screen. Your PB100's screen is blank save for a
- SCSI-diamond logo with the SCSI ID number wandering across the
- screen. Very slick and quick: transfers data at
- about 115K/second, in my informal measurement yesterday. The
- cables required are a standard DB-25 to 50-pin SCSI System Cable
- *and* the "Apple HDI-30 SCSI Disk Adapter" cable, which adapts
- the (male) 50-pin SCSI cable to the obscure high-density SCSI
- port used on the back of all three Powerbook models.
- If you're fortunate enough to have a PB 140 or 170, you can't
- simply connect the SCSI port on your PB to the SCSI port on your
- desktop Mac: the manual warns that everything will explode :-).
- But you can create a "network" between the two Macs and transfer
- data using AppleShare or some other file-sharing goodie in
- System 7 that I haven't figured out yet. I'm not sure what exact
- cables are needed, but it may be as simple as a null-modem serial
- cable. Happy transferring.
- -Ted
- --
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- Ted Swift tswift@well.sf.ca.us or, better yet, Ted_Swift@qm.sri.com
- "You bally well are informed, Jeeves! Do you know everything?"
- "I don't know, sir" ~P.G. Wodehouse
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