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- From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
- Subject: Re: Direct Data Transfers PB170 to IIci -- CORRECTION
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.235519.9592@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 23:55:19 GMT
- Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park
- References: <9630@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> <1992Nov14.135048.17437@husc3.harvard.edu> <BxtKws.Bzq@world.std.com>
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- In article <BxtKws.Bzq@world.std.com> kenh@world.std.com (Ken Hancock) writes:
- >
- >Oh, don't be wimpy. Hit the programmer's switch on the PB170 and drop
- >into the monitor debugger. Connect up the PB170 through the SCSI bus to
- >the Mac you want to transfer files to and power up. Just make sure you
- >have different SCSI IDs and proper termination (PowerBook counts as a drive).
-
- Heh heh. I've suggested this sort of thing to people, but always with
- the caveat that I never had either the nerve or enough spare macs to
- try it myself. I'm glad to hear that it works.
-
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