Re: How to read old Apple floppies on Mac?

[Sam McLauchlan <smclauch@total.net>]

Ted,

If you know someone with an Apple IIgs, you can transfer them to 3.5 inch
diskettes, then take them to a Mac and Appleworks files can be imported into
Clarisworks (aka Appleworks).

Sam Mclauchlan

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