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- From: phillips@uwa.oz.au (Christopher Phillips)
- Subject: Re: Mac <--> cbm
- Message-ID: <phillips.714044023@s9>
- Keywords: mac disk drive convert
- Sender: news@swanee.ee.uwa.oz.au
- Organization: Elec Eng, Univ of Western Australia
- References: <cdminter.713759082@icaen.uiowa.edu>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 09:33:43 GMT
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- cdminter@icaen.uiowa.edu (Corey D Minter) writes:
-
- >I know that the there is a program converting from ms-dos
- >to cbm (i uploaded it to a site a while ago) but is there
- >any reason that the 1581 couldn't convert from Mac to cbm
- >or is there some kind of limitation of the 1581?
-
- As the mac uses a variable speed drive, the 1581 cannot read mac disks.
- However, there are several utilities around that allow a mac to read PC
- disks; ergo: get a PC disk reader for both c64 and mac, and happily transfer
- between the two ;)
-
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