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#BIG transfer

    19-May-93 20:50:01
Sb: #BIG transfer
Fm: Paul Phillips 70531,1315
To: all
Strange situation here. We will soon have a CD ROM recorder system built around a Mac platform. The software will write CD ROM discs in IBM format (ISO 9660), as long as we can get the IBM files inside the Mac. For small files, this is no problem – we could transfer them across our ethernet, or bring over a floppy. But what about one of our offices that might want to transfer, say, 500 meg of info at once? We could easily store that in the Mac on our big hard drive, and write it to the CD recorder, but how do I easily get it into the Mac. That much data going through a busy ethernet would probably trash the net for awhile. I could simply take a hard drive to the PC, load the data and bring it back the the Mac, except that all Macs use SCSI hard drives and few PC's do. I'd appreciate any suggestions.