Re: How to read old Apple floppies on Mac?

[John Gentile <yjgent@home.com>]

I was able to take an AppleWorks file off my IIe and got them into a PC at
work. I did it by taking a 3.5 floppy drive from my GS and hooked it up to
my IIe. I saved the file on the ProDOS disk and put them into my Mac. I then
used ClarisWorks to open the file and then save it into a Word document. I
reformated the disk as an MSDOS disk and saved the Word document on it. I
took the disk to work and had no problem using the file.

Actually some of this could have been done all on the GS with the right
settings to read MSDOS disks.
-- 
John Gentile                                    Rhode Island Apple Group
yjgent@home.com                                      President
 "I never make mistakes, I only have unexpected learning opportunities"

> From: "Robert S. Ball" <bobball@qcnet.net>
> Organization: The Ball Park, Ink
> Newsgroups: 
> comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.apple2,comp.sys.apple2.usergroups
> Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 21:54:56 -0400
> Subject: Re: How to read old Apple floppies on Mac?
> 
> LC models at least up through the 475 accept an Apple IIe card with a
> SCSI port which accepts a 5 1/4 drive.
> 
>> :> The LC's had the ability to read Apple disks, didn't they?
>> 
>> No Mac model has EVER had the ability to read 5-1/4 floppies unless some
>> third-party manufacturer sold a 5-1/4 drive I'm not aware of.  But once
>> these files get moved to a ProDOS formatted 3.5, then any Mac with a
>> built-in floppy drive (meaning Beige G3 and earlier) should be able to
>> read them.  The IIe had the ability to use 3.5 ProDOS drives (I owned
>> one), and the IIGS did too (I still have mine).  As for email...if it
>> was really a II+ or maybe even a IIe, there's a strong probability they
>> won't be able to get to any place where they could send email.  AOL long
>> ago stopped supporting those systems (I know, I was a charter member who
>> got kicked off after they renamed to AOL and I didn't have a Mac or PC).
>> I seem to recall reading recently that the text-based Delphi system is
>> also no more.  So an email solution seems rather unlikely.
>> 
>> = Steve =
> 
> -- 
> Bob Ball