TP701 & Mac

[whittle@usc.edu (Randy Whittle)]

At 8:18 PM 4/6/96, Daniel Kim wrote:
>I have a recently purchased, demo 701cs 486 DX4.  I have been a mac user,
>and have been so fed up with the quality of their powerbooks that I have
>decided to go bi-platform, keeping my powermac desktop and purchasing the
>tp.  I haven't loaded any software on it, and from the posts of this
>group, it sounds like I'll be having a lot of fun putting W95 on.  My
>bios revision is BUTUS3H.
>
>Do I have to revise the bios to get the Windows 95 going?
>
>Also, I would love to be able to transfer files between the two different
>platforms without having to use floppies.  Sounds like the Jeteye has
>worked for you, Chris.  How much can you actually acomplish with this
>set-up?  Can I use the CD ROM on my Macintosh and transfer stuff to my
>thinkpad (a Windows 95 upgrade CD, for example)?  Can I transfer MS Word
>documents back and forth this way? What do you mean when you say

        Actually, for your bi-platform questions I might be of assistance.
I've been using a PowerMac in addition to my PC's (one of which is the
701C) for quite some time now.  However, I haven't done *anything* with the
IR stuff, so I can't help there.

        External CD-ROM's (SCSI) are a cinch to use on either platform.  As
far as using the one *inside* your PowerMac...I don't think so, but don't
quote me on that.  I've never really been able to do such a thing, but then
I haven't tried too hard either.

        IMO, the *BEST* solution for you is to set up a simple Ethernet
job.  For $40 you can get a transceiver for your Mac, and some amout of $
will get you a PCMCIA Ethernet thing for your 701C.  Then, the software you
want to buy is "MacLan Connect" by Miramar software in Santa Barbara.

        Basically, MacLan is Windows software that provides AppleTalk
capability to Windows (and you just turn on the various file-sharing stuff
built-in to the Mac).  Bingo--you can share drives either direction and
also printers (PostScript--you can do others with the help of additional
software).  Only problem is that it doesn't yet support Win '95's long
filenames.

        But its the best solution I've ever used for getting my two
platforms to talk to each other--and I went through a *lot* of crap.  You
might even be able to get the Apple CD-ROM to be used on your PC.


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Randy Whittle           whittle@usc.edu         http://www-scf.usc.edu/~whittle
USC Graduate School of Business

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