Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!uw-june!uw-entropy!dataio!pilchuck!ssc!fyl From: fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: IBM -> Atari Disk Summary: atari's are smarter than you think Message-ID: <1572@ssc.UUCP> Date: 7 Dec 88 22:00:42 GMT References: <1403@virginia.acc.virginia.edu> Distribution: na Organization: SSC, Inc., Seattle, WA Lines: 21 In article <1403@virginia.acc.virginia.edu>, wfp5p@euclid.acc.Virginia.EDU (William F. Pemberton) writes: > Does any one out there know of a way to for a ST and an IBM PC to > read/write each others disk formats? I'm trying to get some of the > binaries for my girlfiends ST, but the only access that I have to the > Net is through PCs. Easy -- just get a cable from E. Arthur Brown Co. (612-762-8847) part number 127-403 for $39.95 with software and get a 40 track DOSish disk drive and hook it up to the Atari. Ataris are smart enough to read DOS disks and with the software you can write DOS boot sectors so the DOS system can read disks written on the Atari. Works great. We use it to transfer PostScript images from the Atari to our UNIX system. Or, you can put a 720K, 3-1/2" floppy on the DOS system. Then just format the disks on the DOS system and all work fine. -- Phil Hughes, SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549, Seattle, WA 98155 (206)FOR-UNIX uw-beaver!tikal!ssc!fyl or uunet!pilchuck!ssc!fyl or attmail!ssc!fyl