Re: How to read old Apple floppies on Mac?

[Stephen Shaw <stephen@apple2.org.za>]

This can definitely be done using a Linux box and an Apple Super Serial card.
Use a null modem cable between the machines. Use Proterm to log into the Linux
boxS to send files in Zmodem. If the files are anything vaguely near text files
my Linux box reads them. This way In can also back my Apple files up on the
DC6000 SCSI tape in my Linux box.


On Thu, 24 May 2001 17:23:42 GMT, Ted Shoemaker wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> My parents had either an Apple ][e or ][+ (sorry, I forget which).
> On that machine, they generated a lot of files,
> which are saved on 5 1/4 inch floppies.
> Is there a way to read those files now?
>
> (I don't care whether the new machine reading it is a Mac or PC;
> whether the operating system is Mac, Windows, Linux, BeOS, or DOS.
> Can someone tell me how to do this?)
>
> Note:  Someone might, "Just print the files out, and then scan the paper
> copy." But since the Apple's printer in a dot-matrix, that solution doesn't
> work.
>
> Thank you very much,
>
> Ted Shoemaker
> shoes6@juno.com

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