Jacklyn wrote:
I don't have any of these programs as far as i can tell course my disk drive head needs to be cleaned and isn't reading disks anymore, so it wouldn't help me any. could you give me a price range on how much a cleaner would cost?
Buy Q-Tips and Iso-propanole (aka "dead haircutter" - a pretty common solvent). Turn everything off, open up the drive by unscrewing the 4 screws at the bottom and then pushing the housing backwards, towards the cable. Then locate the head - it's the thing that would touch the floppy disk surface from below. Set the drive door to "open". Open the window. Dip a q-tip into some isopropanole and gently wipe the head. Repeat with a fresh q-tip until it still looks clean after the wiping. Let it dry for a couple of minutes. Make sure not to get any solvent on the felt pad that would touch the disk from above, and don't close the drive door until it has dried off. That's all.
As far as programs are concerned: Without a Serial card you have a chicken-and-egg problem. There is a version of DOS 3.3 that you can transfer to a software-less Apple II through the serial card, using HyperTerminal on the PC and just 2 commands you must type on the Apple IIRC, and then you can use that to transfer disk images (with "ADT" software) of everything you'd need. However for the alternative route of transfer, through a PC parallel port to the joystick port that every A2 has with the software "a2222pc", there is no such DOS so you need at least one disk with DOS 3.3 on it to have something to start with.
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