Am 06.10.2005 um 21:31 Uhr schrieb PowerBooks:
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From: Bruce Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 09:13:39 -0700
On Oct 6, 2005, at 5:27 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 10/6/05 12:47:14 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi I am a newbie to this list. I was given a Mac Power Book
145B. It
has System 7.1 and Microsoft. I need some guidence on how to get
files
from my PC to the floppy drive on the Mac. I have some stuff I have
dowloaded but I am having a hard time understanding it.
I think the earliest OS that can read PC floppies is 7.5 or OS
7.6.1. I know
OS8+ can.
I could read PC floppies with an Apple-supplied utility in OS 6. PC
Exchange was introduced with the advent of OS 7.0.
As the PowerBook 145 shipped with OS 7.0.1 (and we still don't know
which OS the OP's (David's) 145b actually runs, it could be as far up
as 7.6.1), this may be somewhat OT, but I remember using the "Dayna DOS
Mounter" CP/CDEV way back then, probably in OS 6, too. It was a utility
that originally came with the DaynaFile which was a SCSI-connected
external drive for PC disks IIRC, manufactured in various 3.5" and
5.25" and combined configurations allowing the Mac to read DOS disks
instead of spitting them out automatically (remember MacPuke?), but
could be purchased separately for 89.95 US$. Some basic information can
be found at http://users.eastlink.ca/~pspencer/mac/dayna/dayna.html;
file exchange between Macs & PCs is treated in many places, one I found
is http://www.upenn.edu/computing/printout/archive/v08/5/exchange.html.
I should be able to dig out my early version of the DOS Mounter if need
be, and Dayna Communications have been out of business for more than
ten years now AFAIK, so please... Note that there was a better (so they
say) software called AccessPC and that DOS Mounter was developed
further, so get informed and make your choice:
http://www.tidbits.com/tb-issues/TidBITS-059.html and
http://www.biotech.ufl.edu/EM/data/zipmac.html.
Happy File Exchanging!
OM
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