Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!ucsd!ames!coherent!mailcom!postmaster From: postmaster@mailcom.UUCP (Bernard Aboba) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Mac_DOS Connectivity Message-ID: <146.230F10BF@mailcom.UUCP> Date: 21 Aug 88 08:33:13 GMT Organization: FidoNet node 204/444 - MailCom Message Cen, Palo Alto CA Lines: 31 Some other MS-DOS:Mac connectivity options that haven't been mentioned are Vano Associates' MacChuck, Central Point's floppy controller card, and SoftPC. MacChuck connections a PC and Mac serially, and lets you view the PC screen on the Mac. This only simulates monochrome graphics though, but is written as a genuine device driver on the PC side. This means you can give commands like: dir >mac and the Mac will prompt you with a file name to receive the DOS directory. For $75, it's not a bad value. Central point has a floppy controller that allows PC 3.25" drives to read Mac Diskettes. Another vendor has a controller card that lets you connect an Apple 800K drive to it, and read Mac diskettes that way. Both these options are cheaper than options to read PC disks on a diskette, such as the Dayna File, Infinity Drive from Peripheral Land, and Apple PC card and drive. The Apple Drive does have the advantage that it works seamlessly with Soft PC, which is a PC simulator for the Mac II. Soft PC works in CGA, and is quite compatible. I use it, and have had to reserve 5 Megs on my drive for it (the program alone is over 1 Meg). The Infinity Drive does not mount on the desktop, nor does the Apple PC drive. This is a disadvantage. The Infinity also can double as a reader and writer of 10 MB floppies. It only reads PC floppies. --- * Origin: MailCom -- EchoMac Info Here, Palo Alto (415) 855-9548 (Opus 1:204/444) SEEN-BY: 161/444 204/444 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ FidoNet: 1:204/444 UUCP: ...!sun!sunncal!mailcom!bernard INTERNET: sunncal!mailcom!bernard@Sun.COM US MAIL: Bernard Aboba, 101 First St. #224, Los Altos CA 94022