Date   : Sun, 09 Sep 2001 10:44:56 +0100 (BST)
From   : Michael McConnell <soruk@...>
Subject: Re: XFER

On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Colin Fraser wrote:

> Old A3000s go for around a tenner on eBay (I think these can read PC disks
> too?)

The A3000 has a DD floppy system - so you can talk 720K DOS but not
1.44Mb.  If it has RiscOS 3, it'll talk to the DOS discs natively, if
RiscOS2 you'll need a third party app that can talk the DOS filesystem.

> - seems to be worth it to avoid the problems getting Xfer to run on a
> PC that doesn't want to play ball.

Does sound rather painless - assuming you have a 3.5in floppy disc drive
for your BBC.

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