My wife uses a gateway machine at work and we have the Imac here. To allow her to work on projects at home, we use the Msystem DiskonKey flash memory thingie. It just plugs into a free USB port and the computer finds it as removable media. So far, it is working like a champ. check out www.diskonkey.com They have sizes ranging from 8 to 512 MB On Friday, Sep 20, 2002, at 13:56 US/Eastern, John Teffer wrote:
> What about Firewire target disk mode? If you start your iMac in > target disk > mode, will it be accessible to a PC as an external firewire hard > drive? I > suppose you'd need software on the PC to read an HFS+ formatted disk > though. > > Another type of removable media I've used to share largeish files > between a > Mac and PC was a Sandisk USB Compact Flash card reader. I just used > the 8MB > card that came with my camera, but if you have a newer camera you > probably > have a bigger card. Filling a CD 8 MB at a time would be tedious. > >> An alternative to networking is to swap floppies (you would have to >> buy an USB >> floppy drive for the iMac), or to exchange Zip disks if each had a >> Zip drive. >> Now, if that Dell has a USB port, you could use the same Zip drive on >> both >> machines. > >>> Hmm... I am still running 9.2.2 on the iMac. > >>>> If OS 9, no. In OS X 10.1-10.2, yes. In fact, getting 10.2 would >>>> make it >>>> extremely easy to copy data to and from the iMac and laptop - 10.2 >>>> lets you >>>> browse Windows networks now. > >>>>> My son's college issues Dell laptops to all students. The laptops >>>>> include >>>>> CD-RW drives and are running Windows 2000. My question is: Can I >>>>> network my >>>>> iMac 400 to the Dell and burn data CDs (as backups) from the iMac >>>>> to the >>>>> laptop? > > > -- > The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... > > Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished > Drives | > - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! > | > > Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> > > iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> > --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; > Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> > > Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com > > -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
