Re: Floppy disk

["Rich Beaudry" <r_beaudry@hotmail.com>]

Hank,

You can't read Apple II disks on a PC, regardless of the format (ProDOS,
DOS, or Pascal).

Long ago, I had a girlfriend who had written her master's thesis on an Apple
IIe.  She wanted to convert it to WordPerfect on a PC, as it was getting too
large for her to handle on the Apple IIe.  I set up her word processor ( I
think it was Apple Writer) to print to a generic serial printer (i.e., text
only, no graphics, no control codes).  We then hooked the 25-pin end of the
Apple serial cable to a PC serial port, and opened a communications program
(Procomm plus I think).  We told the PC communications program to log
everything to a file, then told the Apple to print.  Like magic, the text
was captured by the PC communications program, and saved to disk.  We then
had a lot of work to reformat the test in WordPerfect, but it was all worth
it when the final laser printed draft came out.

That's how I'd do it again....

Rich B.

"Hank" <henry_ruth@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:MIQe7.838$5i6.154426436@newssvr17.news.prodigy.com...
> I have an Apple 2E which is used as a word processor with the Applewriter
> software.  I would like to transfer the data on its 5 inch floppies onto a
> second computer which also has a 5 inch disk drive, and is running Windows
> 95.  So far I  have had no success.  I tried converting from ProDos to Dos
> 3.3 first, but that did not work.
> I would be most grateful if anyone can tell me how this trick should be
> done, or even to tell me that it is impossible.
>
> Hank
>
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