Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Path: utzoo!utstat!philip
From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: Apple CD-ROM,GS,Mac
Message-ID: <1990Aug10.001059.16028@utstat.uucp>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 90 00:10:59 GMT
References: <news-server.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!utstat!philip@RUTGERS.EDU> <9008090419.AA25604@apple.com>
Organization: Statistics, U. of Toronto

In article <9008090419.AA25604@apple.com> MQUINN@UTCVM.BITNET writes:
>
>>Furthermore, can the PCT access the Apple-CD ROM via the GS SCSI port?
>>That is does the AE PCT(a PC on a board) support SCSI devices?
>
>The PCT will access a 'special' MS-DOS 'fake' partition on ANY ProDOS HD,
>no matter what kind of controller you're using (SCSI or non-SCSI).  It will
>also access Apple CD-ROM files, but ONLY in the PCT Transfer utility.  

[further explanation deleted]

Ok, the bottom line is this. There are "PC-CD-ROM disks". Can they be used
on an Apple CD-ROM player attached to either a PC(with a SCSI adaptor),
a MacII(with an Orange Micro PC card) and attached to the Mac SCSI port,
or a GS with an AE PC Transporter and attached to the SCSI port of the GS?

What I'm trying to get at is whether or not there is something about the
Apple CD-ROM player(which I have) which would prevent me from using it with
"PC CD-ROM programs", or do I have to go out and buy a CD ROM player(such as
the NEC) which claims to work with both Apple and PC equipment?

Brother, I thought SCSI was SCSI!

Philip McDunnough
University of Toronto
philip@utstat.toronto.edu
[my opinions]

