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Can I connect a removable cartridge drive, such as a Bernoulli drive, to both a Macintosh and IBM?
DISCUSSION Iomega Corp., the distributor of Bernoulli, distributes drives and drivers that work with both Macintosh and MS-DOS compatible computers. Check with Iomega regarding the compatibility of the product you are interested in. After physically and logically establishing the connections, you need a utility to recognize a DOS formatted Bernoulli disk on a Macintosh, such as PC Exchange 2.0, AccessPC 3.0 from Insignia Solutions, or DOS Mounter Plus from Dayna Communications. Digital Intrumentations Technology makes a Windows product called TransferPro for Windows which reads Macintosh formatted removable media. A program called MacDisk for the PC allows MS-DOS compatible computers to read 1.4 MB Macintosh disks. So, you may wish to keep the disks and files in a DOS format, then use Macintosh utilities to access the disk. Most Macintosh applications and their Windows or DOS counterparts can directly open and save files in the opposite platform's format. Many applications also let you read documents created with another application, but there can be some limitations. To help file translations, AccessPC 3.0 ships with some file format translators, and MacLinkPlus, a file translating application, is capable of translating hundreds of different file types. To locate a vendor's address and phone numbers, use the vendor name as the search string. |
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Product Area: | Peripherals |
Category: | Magnetic Storage Devices |
Sub Category: | SCSI Disk Drives |
Keywords: | kcompat |
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