QuickShare was my favorite peripheral of all time, it mounted a 20 MB partition on the 40 MB HDD in the evil Tandy 1000sx as a drive on the Mac Desktop. It was just an end of the chain SCSI interface card for the PC, a SCSI Cable and drivers for both platforms. I had a JT-Fax Card (one of the first for the PC, looong before there were FAX solutions for the Mac) in the 1000sx alongside the QuickShare SCSI interface Card. I had the system set up on a PowerKey Remote, so that a phone call on the FAX line would power up the PC, receive the FAX as a PCX file stored to disk and bang it out on a nice ALPS 24 pin, dot matrix printer.
If it was a logo I needed to cut vinyl for or make a pattern from, I could run another software utility on the PC to convert PCX to PICT and save it to the Mac partition (handled by the PC Software side of QuickShare as one big file) and then transfer the PICT logo file at SCSI speed to the SE/Radius16. There I'd clean it up a bit, paste it into Fontographer as a template and digitize it as Postscript Paths without ever having a piece of paper in hand. This was at a time when Scanners cost 5k$, the video digitizer that came with the MacSignMaker System wasn't what it should have been and even ThunderScan on the ImageBanger WC wasn't
quite good enough.
I was using the customer's FAX machine, remotely, as the scanner I couldn't afford in a paperless office setup until System 7 borked the drivers. I could back up all the data on the 20MB HDD in the SE onto the PC.
Hooking a PC up to appear on the Desktop as a Mac HDD was a pretty slick trick, not to mention REALLY useful until decent 4" Hand Held Scanners came along, and even thereafter when pressed for time! [
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