[WinMac] Re: Reading PC disks on a Mac v7.1.2

Ives Gobau(ives.gobau[at]village.uunet.be)
Tue, 1 Sep 1998 18:28:41 +0200

>From: Floyd Harriott <fsh@po.cwru.edu>
>Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 15:48:58 -0400
> I'm looking for a better means of reading PC disks on the Mac
>(Quadra 630 OS 7.1.2). Since I find the PC Exchange too slow (it takes
>forever and a day just to read the directory) I've been using an old
>AccessPC (v2.0) from Insignia Solutions. It's worked great over the years
>both quick and quite reliable. However, it's getting rather old (1992)
>and from time to time I get these really strange conflicts with my CDROM
>extension.

When you only need to read PC disks, but not write to PC disks, then it
helps a lot to make your floppies Write-Protected. This speeds using PC
disks enormously! I use PC Exchange (Mac OS 8.1), and this trick saves a
lot of time.

Regards,

Ives Gobau

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