Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ginosko!uunet!ncrlnk!ncratl!brown From: brown@ncratl.Atlanta.NCR.COM (Kyle Brown) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Apple II/DOS file transfer Keywords: Apple, ProDOS, DOS Message-ID: <991@ncratl.Atlanta.NCR.COM> Date: 25 Sep 89 14:59:12 GMT Organization: NCR Corporation, E&M Atlanta Lines: 25 This is a minor flame, and hopefully some helpful hints on bridging the gap between the Apple and IBM world. First of all -- you can transfer files between DOS and Apple ProDOS, but with a few conditions: 1) You can only do it with 3 1/2 inch disks. 2) You can only do it with Apple's newest 3 1/2 drives. 3) You can only do it with Apple's newest version of ProDOS. I'm sure your local Apple dealer will be able to help you out. Now for the minor flame -- the IWM (Integrated Woz Machine) is NOT a software solution, but an integrated circuit developed for the Macintosh. (Those of you who have ever messed around with Apples know that the chip was called the IWM since Steve Wozniak's finest hour was when he designed the (BEAUTIFUL!) Disk II inteface) Apple has since developed a new chip that is in the newest Macs and (I believe) on a board for the IIe that will read and write to DOS format disks. Yes it is true that the Western Digital chip set can't make sense out of the encoding scheme used on Apple floppies, but you've got to remember how long ago (1978!) that the Disk II interface was developed. Now back to your regularly scheduled NewsGroup ...